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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Failed to understand "his only concession to the early hour"

Does "his only concession to the early hour" mean "when he retired (only once) in the early hour (midnight?), (what he wore was a pair of brown leather slippers)"?

Context:

Before dawn, in a downstairs hallway at his Irving Street house in Cambridge, Karplus already was turned out neatly in a dress shirt and dark pants, his only concession to the early hour being a pair of brown leather slippers.

More:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/10/harvard-professor-wins-nobel-in-chemistry/
  

Top answer

NL888 his only concession to the early hour being a pair of brown leather slippers. except that he has decided to continue wearing his bedroom slippers for a while.

— Mister Micawber

  • NL888 his only concession to the early hour being a pair of brown leather slippers.
  • except that he has decided to continue wearing his bedroom slippers for a while.
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NL888 his only concession to the early hour being a pair of brown leather slippers.
He has just arisen very early, but he is already fully dressed...except that he has decided to continue wearing his bedroom slippers for a while.
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No. he got up very early - before dawn - and dressed as if it were a more normal time for getting up, except for the slippers.
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Did such expression ("his only concession to") show us the air of dogged gentility?
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NL888Did such expression ("his only concession to") show us the air of dogged gentility?
No. I don't see the connection at all between concession and gentility, dogged or otherwise.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concession

CJ
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