large falling bands about their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did go bareheaded, and wear short cloaks, with most close linen sleeves on their arms, like the virgins of Germany. The inferior sort of citizens wives, and the women of the country, did... A topographical dictionary of Scotland - Page 241by David Webster (topographer.) - 1819 - 676 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pages
...large whalebone sleeves, after the French manner, short cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling bands, about their necks. The unmarried...wives, and the women of the country, did wear cloaks of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours in checker work, vulgarly called " Plodan." The men, he... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 532 pages
...whale-bone sleeves after the French manner, short cloaks, like the Germans, French hoods, andlarge falling bands about their necks. The unmarried of...inferior sort of citizens wives, and the women of the counjry, did wear cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in chequer-work, vulgarly... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...large whalebone sleeves, after the French manner, short cloaks, like the Genftans, French hoods, and large falling bands about their necks. The unmarried, of all sorts, did * go bare-headed, (the case now amongst the lower Scottish women,) and wear short cloaks, with most close linen sleeves... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1823 - 422 pages
...large whale-bone sleeves after the French manner, short cloaks, like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling bands about their necks. The unmarried...their arms, like the virgins of Germany. The inferior sorts of citizens' wives, and the women of the country, did wear cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of... | |
| James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 580 pages
...sleeves after the French manner, short cloaks like the Germans, French hooils, ала large falling-bands about their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did...Germany. The inferior sort of citizens' wives, and the n omen of the country, did wf«r cluaks, made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in checker... | |
| James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 812 pages
...sleeves after the French manner, short cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling-bands about their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did...Germany. The inferior sort of citizens' wives, and the » omen of the country, did wear cloaks, made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in checker-work,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1833 - 416 pages
...all sorts did goe bareheaded, and weare short cloakes, with most close linnen sleeves on their armes, like the virgins of Germany. The inferior sort of citizens wives, and the women of the countrey, did weare cloakes made of a course stuffe, of two or three colours in checker worke, vulgarly... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - Engraving, English - 1835 - 350 pages
...large whale-bone sleeves, after the French manner, short cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling bands about their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did go bare headed, and wore short cloaks, with most close linen sleeves on their arms, like the virgins of... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - Engraving, English - 1835 - 356 pages
...large whale-bone sleeves, after the French manner, short cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling bands about their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did go bare headed, and wore short cloaks, with most close linen sleeves on their arms, like the virgins of... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 568 pages
...after the French manner, short cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling bands round their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did go bareheaded,...women of the country, did wear cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours in chequer-work, vulgarly called plodan?' '. . . . Lord Home came to... | |
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