Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 161
gthe ears ; but ere long the real thing was preferred to asuggestion, and a time came when a bulls horns werefaithfully imitated in form and position, so that a crowdof ladies really did look like a herd of cattle. The heart-shaped head-dress, long a favourite, stiff and absurd asit was, appears… … Fig. 66.—Countess of Arundel, 1439. backward from the forehead two feet or more, and whichis still found in Syria, It was made of dark cloth or otherstiff materials (sometimes, indeed, of metal), often em- HEAD-DRESSES ANCIENT AND MODERN 141 broidered, and from the summit hung a long…
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