Both Uses of
accumulate
in
The Age of Innocence
- By the fifteenth the season was in full blast, Opera and theatres were putting forth their new attractions, dinner-engagements were accumulating, and dates for dances being fixed.†
Chpt 26 *
- She had put on the low-necked and tightly-laced dinner-dress which the Mingott ceremonial exacted on the most informal occasions, and had built her fair hair into its usual accumulated coils; and her face, in contrast, was wan and almost faded.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(accumulate) to collect or gradually increase