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"ref": "1935, Travel, volumes 76-77",
"text": "At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored \"aloha\" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat.",
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"ref": "1996 September, Patrick Mott, “100% Cotton Prozac”, in Orange Coast, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 28",
"text": "No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein.",
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"ref": "1999 December 14, Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York: The Free Press, page 83",
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"sense": "Hawaiian shirt",
"word": "Hawaii-hemp"
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"word": "léine Haváíoch"
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"sense": "Hawaiian shirt",
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