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
f anycolor save yellow ; andone sentence of the in-structions reads thus, If tis velvet let itbe a shabbaroon ; if ofcloth, 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. 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 Frenchhood ; but it cer-i tainly did not in ; America, for I find t often in invento- 1 ries side by side items of blacksilk hoods andanother…
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