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Actually, in the preceding dialogue, three ladies from the highest level of society can be cited for innocently mentioning the unmentionables in no less than twenty-plus instances, to wit:
I knew unmentionables simply as a euphemism for `underwear'; two dictionaries of American usage, one thesaurus, and one husband (from Mr. Sharp's own state of Missouri) bear out that impression.
In the nineteenth century, the Age of Euphemism, the word unmentionables designated only one specific referent--men's trousers.
How clever it is, though, that metaphor, the great facilitating factor in the changing of word meanings, has carefully camouflaged the unmentionables of the current day.
Upon reading Don Sharp's otherwise well-researched article on unmentionables [XVIII,2], I had the distinct impression that he had gone too far in defining that crucial word.