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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 336

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and is definedin the notes to Gays Trivia as a Joseph or a wrap-rascal. Now Sir Walter Scott in The Heart ofMidlothian describes a wrap-rascal very distinctly as a close-buttoned jockey-coat with large metal but-tons, worn with coarse blue stockings called boot-hose because supplying the place of… … Mrs. Thomson in Riding-dress.

Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775

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