Some obscure and unusual words that came to light, while a summary of the history of hats and headgear. Seen recently finished reading Professor and Madman (by Simon Winchester, HarperCollins 1998) about the implementation of the Oxford English Dictionary, I thought it might be fun to explore the definitions and etymology of some of these ancient terms, most already have disappeared from modern use. [I did this project is broken into three or four parts, which will remaintuned.]
To qualify for inclusion below, the word indicates a wavy red line at check Microsoft Word spell "tool. So here goes:
Ferroniere
[FR. Ferronniere one bands, a crown worn on the forehead after the portrait of Leonardo da Vinci's La Belle Ferronniere.]
(See quot. 1960th)
Thackeray in May 1840 Fraser. June 681 / 2 The Sisters .. salt pink .. and copper ferronières .. were very interesting. 1908 HC SMITH xx jewelry. These 172head piece is known as Ferrone. 1960 H. Hayward Antique Coll. 117 / 1 Ferronière, a chain as a decoration around the head with a jewel in the heart of acting.
Bongrace
Obs.
[A. Pats vppermost F. bonne-grace 'th' state depends on the tail of a French-hood (which perhaps our Boon-grace) "Cotgr., F. bonne grace good grace.]
1. A shadow or curtain that previously worn on the front of women's hats caps to protect the skin from the sun, a beach umbrella. (Seequot. 1617; the most recent may thus belong to 2).
1530 PALSGR. 907 Grace bones, moufflet. 1533 Pardon & Fri. In Hazlet. Dodsl. I. 203 Her bongrace its ceramics, along with her French hood, as she always went out for sunburn. 1595 R. SMIT prophetic wind. From fillets and bungraces. Pr 1604 DEKKER King's This 311-hee grace of blessing specially made to keep his face from the heat. 1617 Moryson ition. III. IV. i. 170 A French shadow veluet to defend the Sunnis,our Gentle ~ women from the former borrowed from French, and called them Bonegraces now completely out of us all. 1636 Davenant Plato. Lovers Wks. (1673) 411 If they are, but enough to bring a Bongrace.
Fig Heywood 1609 Brit. Troy VI. H.. 137 A Grove through which the round pond DOTh do his one Bowes Bon ~ grace of the Son.
2. A wide brimmed hat, mounted on the face shade. arc. or Obs.
1606 HOLLAND Suetonius. 75 a broad hat brim'd [Marg. or Bond-grace = petasatus] itshead. 1638 Songs Costume (1849) 140 straw hats will never bongraces, From the sun to hide your face. In 1719 Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 107 His Bongrace of wended Straw. 1815 SCOTT Guy M. III, an old-style hat, known as a bon-grace.
3. 'Fenders junk at the end thunder unhindered from all parts of the ship, or arcs. Word Smyth Sailor's-BK.
Huke
Obs. excl. History.
[A. VAN. huque, heuque a sort of cloak with a hood, in med.L. huca (13 ° C. Cang), MDU. HUKE,hôike, Heuke, Tu. Cowl MLG. hoike, Alcatel. hoike, Heuke, Heike, Hokke, Loft, E. Fris. Heike, Heike, Haik, hoike. Markov source is not clear. See also HAIK1.]
A kind of cape or cloak with a hood, a cloak or overcoat worn by women, and the side of men, even then implemented in a close-fitting dress worn by both sexes "(costume Fairholt).
1415 in Nicolas Test. Antiquity. I. 187, I wish all my hopolands [and] not huykes Millard, among the employees to be shared. 1418 EE Wills(1882) 37 Also a Hewk branches and other Melly separated. 1423 JAS. I Kingis V. XLIX, a test was Huke quhite tissew vpon hir. c1440 [see Haik n.1]. a1529 E. Skelton Rummyng Her Huke 56 branches Lyncole. 1530 PALSGR. 231 / 1 Hewke a dress for a woman surquayne, froc. Ibid. 233 / 1 Huke. 1616 BULLOKAR, Huke, a dress Dutch couering head, face and body. a1626 BACON New Atl. (1627) 24 commandments in a rich Huke. a1657 Lovelace Poems (1864) of 210 men in 'th Luyck country, he helps hisHuyck eternal. 1694 Dunton's Ladies Dict. (N.), the German virgins .. Naxos or put on a plain garment, such as some places call a Huk. 1834 JR Planche Brit. Costume 181 1852 CM Yonge cameos (1877) II. XXXVI. 370 When I'm not a seat belt, has a bar huque or slinky dress.
b. Used for the Arab world. Haik View HAIK2.
1630 J. TAYLOR (Water P.) Wks. (N.), the kind richest [women] do a huicke Weare, rob of cloth or material covered and the topof what is collected and sown together to form a potlid English with a bow, Wyoming at the top. 1660 F. Brooke tr. Trav Le Blanc. 269 (Cairo) They [ladies] go all as' fora masked and covered with a Huke to hide their faces.
So Huke V. Trans. to be covered or as a Huke veil, mantle.
1613 H. Half-KING pennyw. Wit (ed. 3) death. (No.), so I .. shed light on Mark Vail spotless apparently more benevolent than that of Huke and the mask of Publickshame.
Lovelock
[f. Love + No.1 LOCK No.1]
A whirlwind of a particular form worn by courtiers in the days of Elizabeth and James I and then some whim or hair tress of a particular character or surprising.
1592 Lyly Midas III. ii. 43 Do you Haue .. Your Loue-Locke and a page with a twist or shaggie should be on your shoulders? 1628 Prynne (title) The Vnlovelinesse of Love ~ Locke. 1840 Marryat Poor Jack Lovelocks which sailors term the curls, they carry on theirtemple. 1894 A. Jail GRIFFITHS Secrets Ho. II. IV. ii. 63 Band Oline, which are used for love locks for decorating your attention ~ head and temples.
Trans. 1886 MAXWELL GRAY Silence Dean Maitland I. i. 12 each cart [] horse wore his mane love-lock.
Fontanges
[FR. Fontanges, B. Fontanges territorial title of a mistress of Louis XIV.]
A large head dress in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Bury 1689 SHADWELL F. 11, of absence, Lord? finedark caps, Fontanges, girdles. 1711 Addison Spect. 98 No 1 Fontanges this quaint one Ell rose above their heads. 1883 FG Stephens Catal. Afdrukken Brit. Mus. IV. 282 is an ugly woman with eyes of an old Fontanges.
Biggin
[A. Pet F. child Béguin. See Beguin, note.]
1. Company of a child.
1530 PALSGR. 198 / 1 one barley chyldes careful, beguyne. 1532 LAKE refute. Tindale Wks. 577 / 2. 1639 Massinger Unnat. Oppose IV. II you would have me turn my hat for doubleinfluence and biggings? No Cruise 1755 80 (1774) III. 71 As a store of weight, caps .. biggens .. Sun will create a birth in hospital. 1819 SCOTT Ivanhoe XXVIII confusion, my brain is reversible .. Since Biggin on the road for the first round his head.
Cadogan
[Said to be the name of the 1st Earl Cadogan (died 1726). See Littré, and N. & V. 7: E Ser IV. 467, 492]
A state of nodes in the hair behind the head.
c1780 B'NESS D'Oberkirch Mem (1852) II. IX DuchessBourbon had introduced at the court of Montbéliard .. [fashion] of Cadogan, hitherto worn only by gentlemen.
Hairpieces
[A. Hairpieces F. (TUP) tuft of hair, esp. forehead drift. (in dim.) Van. Toupe located TUP tuft of hair, leaves, etc. ads. * Nokia. topp-= OHG. Zopf found, Tuft, top, see. OFris. tassel on top, placed on HotPro Honors higher Tuft, Tres: see No. 1 TOP]
1. = Hair.
1729 Art of Politické 10, we believe that the words are eternal modern? Hair andTompion, cosine and Colmar will be limited by some people, a wig, a clock, called a couple of houses, a fan. 1818 SCOTT Rob Roy you, this fadeurs that every man with hair that feels compelled to preach to a sad girl. 1863 Cornh. Power. VII. 395 Wigs are dangerous if not open. A hair can be easily identified.
b. Trans. Hair = b. Obs.
1728 Fielding Love in Sev. Masked Epil. Where are you so hopefully Toupees defense. 1748 RICHARDSON ClarissaWks. 1883 VII. 495 A pair of cloth or string vest Toupees .. with wrinkled faces acid half Cocked.
2. The forelock of a horse or other animal (OBS), a thick head of hair (in quot. A Negro).
1797 Sporting May X 295 tuft of hair, which is part of the mane which lies between the two ears. Medical Southey III in 1834. (1862) 5 Some of the residents in the Congo to a fob in their woolly hair secret.
3. attrib. such as hair, dude, man-wig, hair-titmousse, theCrested titmousse.
1731 Fielding Mod. HUSB. I. IX, meeting with nothing but a pack of hair crests on their heads in chalk on their wigs. 1748 RICHARDSON Clarissa (1811) VII. VI. N. 35, only hair man, but all manly. a1784 Pennant arct. Zool. (1785) II. 423 titmousse. Hairpieces .. long feathers on his head, how he behaves at times a bit high, such as hair. 1884 E. YATES rec. & Exper. II. 238 N carefully arranged hair wigs.
So toupeted nonce-WD. (Of PTD,Su pe d) A., wears a toupee.
1903 Smart Set IX. 53 / 2 Let's go to dinner with the colonels toupeted.
Kevenhuller
Obs.
[f. the name of the Austrian general, Andr. Khevenhüller von (1683-1744).]
a. attrib. Used for a fuck up as a wide-brimmed hat resulted in the middle of 18th century view (Fairholt dress Ing (1860) 299), and then with the hat. b. Absol. A cock in this form, a cocked hat in this state.
1746 Brit. Power. 309 A clip laced hatBeaux what we have learned to call Kevenhuller Cock. 1750 COVENTRY Pompey Litt. II. iv. (1785) 58 / 1 Jockey boots, hats and Khevenhullar Coach-whips. Proc 1753. Board of Common Sense (Fairholt I. 377) is not the Dettingen cock password? Courage Kevenhuller noble? 1762 Lond. Chron. XI. Chapter of hats (Plate), Hats are now worn on an average, six inches long and three-fifths of the corners, between the Quakers and Cocked Kevenhuller.
Nivernois
Nowhistory.
[<The title of Louis Jules Mazarin Mancini, Duc de Nivernois (1716-98), and the French ambassador in London 1762-3. Nivernois (now Nivernais) was the name of a former province of central France with Nevers as its capital, cf. French Nivernois inhabitant of Nevers (1671), inhabitant of Nivernais (1721), Nivernais characterestic of Nevers (1840).]
A. adv. Nivernois in the style of a hat (see sense B.).
1764 MRS. HARRIS in Private lett. 1: a Ld. Malmesbury I. 114 municipalitiesCorsetti head bent style Nivernois. C. 1766 Anstey New Bath Guide x II. 68 What about my hat Nivernois' can compare? 1960 CW Cunnington et al. Dict. Ing Suit 147 / 1 Nivernois hat, a tricorn hat with a wide distribution is rolled over the edge, a flat crown, known as "Nivernois cock.
B. No A hat with a broad triangular, rolled edges and a low crown, fashion, in the late eighteenth century.
1765 in CW Cunnington et al. Dict. Ing Costume (1960) 147 / 1 He will wear thislarge umbrella like hat. This is Nivernois. 1770 E. Pratt Art of Hairdressing 8 For those looking to camp Balls prefer'd, nor is dust and hearing ointment, silk costumes Van, or Nivernois gentlemanly. Belgravia 1868 Ann. 29 / 1 Its Nivernois small triangle hat laced with a glow "before it was hidden under his left happy. 1969 RT Wilcox Dict. Costume (1970) 248 / 1 Nivernois, a diminutive of the hat Macaroni English with wig worn Cadogan1770.
Chaise
[Br; Five. dormeur items used to sleep comfortable for sleeping, f. dormir to sleep.]
1. A hood or nightcap. Obs.
1734 MRS. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) I. 479, I sent .. A cartridge chaise. Come 1753 Mrs. Dewes in Life & Corr. 260 She had not yet been able to take his mice.
2. A journey of transport equipment to sleep kg
1808 M. Wilmot JRNL. August 16 (1934) III. 363 We .. offset dormeuse 4 horses and two updatebefore. 1825 Visc. S. THE Redcliffe SL Poole Life (1888) I. 357 The two dark green carriages and a chaise Britchka thing .. see you in Windsor. 1841 Lytton Nt. And Patricia. (1851) 216 A chaise and four drove to the door of the inn to change horses.
3. A type of banking or banking.
1865 Ouida Strathmore I. VI. 94 (Stanf.) He is back in a chaise longue in front of the fire.
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