Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 75
a garb full of seams to fit the form. Theveil of modest wifehood, and the mantle which wrappedthe bread-giverl as she moved about her farm—thatactually, perhaps, held the bread she gave—grew in 1 Lady is derived from hlafdig—breaagiver ; lord, from hlaford—bread- 54 BEAUTY AND DRESS. time to be the… … Fig. 15. —Eleventh century (early). Fig. 16.—Eleventh century (late). that century, shows the head-rail in the form of hood andwimple, rather than veil, and with its pads or knots atthe side, very similar to what the middle classes worethree centuries later. Around the face, a border of…
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