A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: The dictionaryChatto and Windus, 1876 - 527 páginas |
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15th century amongst Anglo-Saxon apparel appears armour arms arquebus attire Bayeux Tapestry brass breeches called Canterbury Tales Charles Charles II Chaucer Church cloak cloth of gold coat collar colour coronation costume Cotgrave crown dagger Demmin described doublet dress Ducange Duke Earl Edward III Edward IV effigy embroidered England engraved examples Fairholt fashion fastened fifteenth century fourteenth century France French gambeson garment girdle gorget gown guisarme hair Halliwell Harleian haubergeon hauberk head head-dress helmet Henry VIII hood inventory King kirtle knight lace ladies latter leather linen mantle mentioned Meyrick Collection miniver Norman ornamented painted period petticoat plate portrait Queen quoted reign of Edward reign of Henry Richard Richard II robes Roman Royal ruff Saxon says seventeenth century shoes shoulders silk silver sixteenth sleeves specimens Strutt surcoat sword Temp thirteenth century tunic velvet Viollet-le-Duc voulge weapon wearing woodcut word worn
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Página 82 - Bristol frieze-gown girded to his body with a penny leather girdle, at the which hang"ed by a long string of leather his Testament, and his spectacles without case, depending about his neck upon his breast.
Página 63 - Sword and buckler fight begins to grow out of use. I am sorry for it : I shall never see good manhood again. If it be once gone, this poking fight of rapier and dagger will come up ; then a tall man, and a good sword and buckler man, will be spitted like a cat or rabbit.
Página 115 - Commons too, great courtiers, who are in it; being a long cassocke close to the body, of black cloth, and pinked with white silk under it, and a coat over it, and the legs ruffled with black riband like a pigeon's leg ; and, upon the whole, I wish the King may keep it, for it is a very fine and handsome garment.
Página 188 - The Queen arrived with a train of Portuguese ladies in their monstrous fardingales, or guard-infantes, their complexions olivader * and sufficiently unagreeable. Her Majesty in the same habit, her fore-top long and turned aside very strangely. She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and, though low of stature, prettily shaped, languishing and excellent eyes, her teeth wronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out ; for the rest lovely enough.
Página 393 - I find the Ladies of Honour dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just, for all the world, like mine; and buttoned their doublets up the breast, with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women in any point whatever; which was an odde sight, and a sight did not please me.
Página 389 - After a short survey of them, I found they were patched differently; the faces on one hand, being spotted on the right side of the forehead, and those upon the other on the left.
Página 21 - In the ages of chivalry the usage of the bow was considered as an essential part of the education of a young man who wished to make a figure in life. The heroes of romance are therefore usually praised for their skill in archery ; and Chaucer, with propriety, says of sir Thopas,
Página 388 - have lately entertained a vaine custom of spotting their faces out of an affectation of a mole, to set off their beauty, such as Venus had; and it is well if one black patch will serve to make their faces remarkable, for some fill their visages full of them, varied into all manner of shapes and figures...
Página 244 - Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, others with a pique de vant (O fine fashion !), or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being grown to be so cunning in this behalf as the tailors.
Página 244 - I instructed thee in the phrases of our eloquent occupation, as — How, sir, will you be trimmed ? Will you have your beard like a spade or a bodkin ? A pent-house on your upper lip, or an ally on your chin ? A low curl on your head like a Bull, or dangling locke like a Spaniell ? Your Mustachoes sharpe at the ends like Shomakers' aules, or hanging downe to your mouth like Goates' flakes ? Your Love-lockes wreathed with a silken twist, or shaggie to fall on your shoulders.