Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 318
land of anycolor save yellow ; andone sentence of the in-structions reads thus, If tis velvet let itbe a shabbaroon ; if ofcioth, a French hood.I abandoned shabba-roon as a wholly lostword; until Mrs. Gum-mere announced that the word was chaperon, fromthe Norman hood just described. This chaperon… … Black Silk Hood. u 248 Two Centuries of Costume The term coif, spelt in various ways, quoif,quoiffe, coiffer, ciffer, quoiffer, has been held to ap-^ ply to the French hood ; but it cer-tainly did not inAmerica, for I findi often in invento-ries side by sideitems of blacksilk hoods andanother of…
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