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A history of lace (1875)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle · leaf 193

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LOUIS XIV. 135 soon ceased to be artistic; for thirty years it grew higher and higher. Poets and satirists attacked the fashion, much as they did the high head-dresses of the Roman matrons more than a Fisr. 68. … A lady in morning deshabille. From an engraving by Le Paultre. 1676. thousand years ago.20 Of the extinction of this mode we have various accounts ; some asserting it to have been preached down 20 The wife of Trajan wore this coiffure, appelle un exemple dans les coiffures and her sister Marcina…

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