Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 311
d. Varying slightly from reign to reign, yet nevergreatly changed, this sombre plain French hoodwas worn literally for centuries. It was deemed sograve and dignified a head-covering that, in the reignof Edward III, women of ill carriage were forbiddenthe wearing of it. 239 40 Two Centuries of… … Gulielma Penn. ladies of the French court were permitted to wearvelvet hoods, and only women of station and dig-nity, black hoods. This black hood was dignified in allegorical litera-ture as the venerable hood, and was ever chosen The Venerable Hood 241 by limners to cover the head of any woman of…
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