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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 317

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folk. Mis-son s Memories^ pub-lished also in 1698,gives the milkmaidson Mayday in likehoods. The earlyeditions of Hudi-bras show thesehoods, and in Ho-garths works theymay be seen ; not always of black, of course, in lateryears, but ever of the same shape. The hood worn by the Normans was called… … The Strawberry Girl. The Venerable Hood 247 of young lads and girls playing Hoodman-blindor Blindman s-buff. The latter name came fromthe- buffet or blow which the players gave withtheir twisted chaperon hoods. The blind mansimply put his hood on hind side afore, andwas effectually blinded.These…

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