Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 296
irror; thecomfortier but a hand-warmer, a little box tohold within a muff; thestrong-waters-bottle was frankly what its name bespoke, namely, a goodlysized barrel-shaped flask of strong Bristol glass,flowered with red and yellow, and used for holdingNew England rum. It could be carried with the… … Mrs. Stewart. 590 Two Centuries of Costume and New England rum supplied her each year;that she may treat as she has been accustomedto do. The word pocket is the old French pouchet.Allied words are poke, pouch, pucker. InPiers Plowman it became palke. Chaucer tellsof two pigs in a poke; here a poke…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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