Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 298
Mrs. William Jackson. By Gilbert Stuart. The Pocket 591 mouth when talking or smiling, for her teeth werepoor. Another word for a reticule was cabas ; the NewEnglish Dictionary calls this an Americanism, andgives as an example a use in the year 1885. Ofcourse, this is wholly inadequate, for the… … Bead Chain. used by Charlotte Bronte. It is in Villette (1853): the patterns for the slippers, the bell-ropes, thecabas were selected; the slides and tassels for thepurses chosen. In \j2idi^ yiox^2iX\^Dramatic Scenesfrom Real Life (1833), a cabas is described as anovelty in England. The word meant…
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