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" 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 241
by David Webster (topographer.) - 1819 - 676 pages
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History of Great Britain, from the death of Henry viii. to the ..., Volume 2

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...
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Picture of Edinburgh

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...
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Institutions et vie municipale à Aix-en-Provence sous la Révolution: 1789-an ...

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...
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Picture of Edinburgh: Containing a Description of the City and Its Environs

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...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Or a Physical ..., Volume 3

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...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical ..., Volume 3

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,...
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Minor antiquities of Edinburgh, by the author of 'Traditions of Edinburgh ...

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...
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Scott and Scotland

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...
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Scott and Scotland

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...
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Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 1

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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