Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 424
Marlborough,gained a great victory onthe battle-field of Ramillies,and that gave the title to anew wig described as hav-ing a long, gradually diminishing, plaited tail, calledthe Ramillie-tail, which was tied with a great bowat the top and a smaller one at the bottom. Thehair also bushed out at… … Patrick Henry. ^^6 Two Centuries of Costume offended because Lord Bolingbroke, summoned hur-riedly to her, appeared in a Ramillies wig insteadof a full-bottomed peruke. The queen remarkedthat she supposed next time Lord Bolingbroke wouldcome in his nightcap. It was the same offendingnobleman who…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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