From Ian Fleming's "Thunderball"
CHAPTER 11
(Of Domino Petachi)
Bond settled himself sideways so that he could look at her. She wore a gondolier's broadbrimmed straw hat, tilted impudently down over her nose. The pale blue tails of its ribbon streamed out behind. On the front of the ribbon was printed in gold "M/Y DISCO VOLANTE". her short-sleeved silk shirt was in the half-inch vertical striped of pale blue and white and, with the pleated cream skirt, the whole get-up reminded Bond vaguely of a sunny day at Henley Regatta. She wore no rings and no jewelry except for a rather masculine square gold wrist watch with a black face. Her flat-heeled sandals were of a white doeskin. They matched her broad white doeskin belt and the sensible handbag that lay, with a black and white stripped silk scarf, on the seat between them
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