Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2G. Bell and Sons, 1885 |
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ancient Anglo-Saxon appears armour band baselard Bayeux tapestry beard boots brass buttons called Canterbury Tales Charles Charles II Chaucer Church cloak cloth coat colour copied costume covered Cupid's Revenge curious curls Cynthia's Revels decorated Dictionary doublet dress Earl Eastward Hoe edition Edward Edward III effigy England English engraved fashion fastened fifteenth century fourteenth century French gambeson garment girdle gloves gold gown hair Harl head head-dress helmet Henry VIII History Honest Whore hood inventory jewels John King knight Knight's Tale lace lady's leather linen Lord Memoir mentioned Meyrick middle ages Mundus Muliebris neck Notes noticed occurs original ornamented pair plate Portrait Queen reign of Elizabeth ribbon Richard Richard II romance round ruff Satires Saxon says seen shoes shoulders silk silver sixteenth sleeves sometimes specimen Strutt stuff sword temp term tion Trans velvet wear Woodcuts wore worn by ladies
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Page 419 - Vols. I. and II.— Autobiography and Annals. Portrait. Vol. III.— Faust. Complete. . Vol. IV.— Novels and Tales : containing Elective Affinities, Sorrows of Werther, The German Emigrants, The Good Women, and a Npuvelette.