British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 440
fectation of a mole, to set off their beauty,such as Venus had ; and it is well if one black patch willserve to make their faces remarkable, for some fill theirvisages full of them, varied into all manner of shapes andfigures. In Wit Restored, 1658, we read: Their faces are besmeard and piercdWith… … Fig. 376.—Patching, 1650. 286 BRITISH COSTUME some cut like stars, some in half moons, some inlozenges. The apparel and ornaments of a lady of fashion may be
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