 The inferior sort of citizens' wives, and the women of the country, did wear cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in chequer work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general they would not, at this time, be attired after the English...  The History of Edinburgh, from the Earliest Accounts, to the Year 1780 ... - Page 42by Hugo Arnot - 1816 - 598 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 508 pages
...wear cloaks made of a coarfe fluff, of two or three colours, in chequer work, vulgarly called plodan. To conclude, in general, they would not at this time be attired after the Englifh tafhion in any fort ; but the men, efpecially at court, follow the French falhion ; and the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1796 - 982 pages
...after the Engliih falhion, in any iort ; but tlie men, efpeciaily at court, follow the French faihion ; and the women, both in court and city, as well in cloaks, аз naked heads, and clofe fleeves on the arms, and all other garments, follow the faihion ot t!¡c... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 532 pages
...cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in chequer- work, vulgarly called pladdsn. To conclude, in general, they would not at this time be attired after the Eng. LI 897 jish fashion in any sort ; but the men, especially at court, follow the French fashion... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...wear cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in chequer work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general they would not, at this time,...court and city, as well in cloaks as naked heads, and also sleeves on the arms, and all other garments, follow the fashion of the women in Germany." In 1729,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...wear cloaks made of a coarse stuff, of two or three colours, in chequer work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general they would not, at this time,...fashion in any sort ; but the men, especially at court, follow-the French fashion ; and the women, both in court and city, as well in cloaks as naked heads,... | |
 | David Webster (topographer.) - Scotland - 1819 - 690 pages
...wear cloaks made of a coarse stuft", of two or three colours, in checkerwork, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general, they would not at this time be attired after the F.nglish fashion in any sort ; but the men, especially at court, follow the French fashion ; and the... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1823 - 422 pages
...stuff, of two or three colours, in chequer- work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in genera], they would not at this time be attired after the English fashion in any sort ; hut the men, especially at court, follow the French fashion; and the women, both in court and city,... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...colours, in chci)uer-work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general, they would not at thia time be attired after the English fashion in any sort;...court and city, as well in cloaks as naked heads, and also sleeves on the. arms, and all other garments, follow the fashion of the women in Germany." JAMES... | |
 | John Stark - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1825 - 428 pages
...colours, in chequer-work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general, they would not at this time he attired after the English fashion in any sort ; but...court and city, as well in cloaks as naked heads, and also sleeves on the arms, and all other garments, follow the fashion of the women in Germany. ' Such... | |
 | John Stark - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1825 - 414 pages
...cloaks made of a coarse stuft 11 of two or three colours, in chequer-work, vulgarly called pladden. To conclude, in general, they would not at this time be attired after the English fashion in any sort ; hut the men, especially at court, follow the French fashion ; and the women, bolh in court and city,... | |
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