British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 422
on your chin, probablya delicate and playful allusion to a beardcut like a pencel or pennon^el (the smallflag at the end of the lance). We alsoread of tile beards, something like cathedralbeards before mentioned, and a perfumedbeard is alluded to. Brushes were especi-ally kept for the use of the… … 270 BRITISH COSTUME the peascod doublet is of plain white silk with white lacefalling band and cuffs, the bombasted breeches and hoseare of white silk with needlework crescents, the stockingsof white silk rolled over the knees, and the shoes are alsowhite. There is only one bit of colour in the…
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