Some obscure and unusual words come to light while looking back at the history of hats and hairstyles. Having just finished reading The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester, HarperCollins 1998) on the implementation of the Oxford English Dictionary, I thought it might be fun to explore the definitions and etymology of some of the old conditions, including the Most for all but disappeared from modern. [I break this project into three or four parts, so stay tuned.]
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Ferronniere
[Wo Ferronnière, a sash, a crown worn on the forehead after portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, La Belle Ferronnière].
(See quot. 1960.)
Thackeray in the June 1840 May Fraser's 681 / 2 The Sisters .. with pink scarves .. Ferroni and brass .. vote was very charming. 1908 HC SMITH jewelry xx. 172 This headornament known as Ferroni. 1960 H. HAYWARD Antique Coll. 117 / 1 Ferroni, a chain used as decoration around the head with a jewel in the middle.
Bongrace
Obs.
[Vppermost 'th' grace Bonne AF-flap hangs the waist of a French-hood (hence the Belik our Boon-grace) "Cotgr; F. .. Bonne good grace grace]
1. A shadow or curtain taken earlier are on the front bonnet of women or caps to protect the skin from the sun, a beach umbrella.(See quot 1617. The following may then refer to 2.)
PALSGR 1530. 907 The grace of our bones, Moufflet. 1533 Pardoner in Hazle & Ven Dodsl. I. The 203 is bongrace, potatoes with her French hood, when he went out, the sun always burn. 1595 R. Wilson 's prophet Pedlar. Bij, Fillets and racing environment. 1604 King Dekker Entert. This blessing 311-grace hee made for the purpose, keep your face from heat. 1617 Moryson Itin. III. IV veluet i. 170 A French shadow of defending themSunne, borrowed our Gentle ~ women of the old by the French, and called Bonegraces now completely out of the VSE with us. 1636 Davenant Plato. Lovers weeks. (1673) 411 had but old enough to wear a Bongrace.
Fig Heywood 1609 Brit. Troy VI. Civ. 137 Grove A race in which the lake is doing her Bowes Bon ~ grace of the sun.
2. A wide-brimmed hat attached shadow on his face. Arch. or Obs.
HOLLAND 1606 Suetonius. 75 A marginal level brim'd Hat [. orBond-grace =] petasatus on his head. 1638 Songs Costume (1849) 140 straw hats bongraces will not hide from the sun in his face. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) 107 IV of your Bongrace wended Straw. 1815 SCOTT Guy M. III, an old-fashioned bonnet called a bon-grace.
3. "Junk-fenders, boom because of obstacles from a ship of pages or sheets. Smyth Sailor Word-BK.
Huke
Obs. Exc. Hist.
[A. OF. Huque, a sort of cloak with a hood over heuque med.L. HUCA (13c. in Du Cange), MDU. Huke hôike, Heuke, vol. huik, MLG. , LG Hoike. , Heuke Hoike, Heike, Hokke, Hok, E. Fris. Heike, Heike, "hoike Haike. Another obscure origin. HAIK1 See also.]
A kind of cloak or coat with a hood; (costume Fairholt), "fitting dress worn by later applied to both sexes or a dress worn by men and women after Coil.
1415 in Nicolas Test. Age. I. 187, I want all my hopolands [and] are not calcified Huykedivided among the servants. 1418 EE Wills (1882) 37 Also a Hewk of Grene and others Melly separated. 1423 JAS. The King's Q. XLIX, had a quhite Huke tissew vpon hir Scheme. c1440 [see Haik n.1]. a1529 Rummyng 56 E. Skelton Huke your Lyncole Grene. PALSGR 1530. 231 / 1 Hewke surquayne a dress for a woman, fag. Ibid. 233 / 1 Huke. 1616 BULLOKAR, Huke, a Dutch costume couering face, head and body. a1626 BACON New ATL. (1627) 24 A messenger, in a rich Huke. a1657 Lovelace Poems (1864) 210As a country dame th 'i Luycks, carries out its eternal Huyck. 1694 Dunton women Dict. (N.), The German virgins .. on a garment or plain Streight, who share in some places a call Huk. 1834 Brit JR Planche. 181st costume 1852 cm YONGE Cameos (1877) XXXVI II. 370 When not in armor, wearing a tight dress or Huque.
b. Applied to the Arabs. Haik: see HAIK2.
1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) weeks. (N.), the most abundant type Weare [women] huicke a deer, theRob is covered with a cloth or ribs, and the top is collected and sown together in the form of a potlid English Tassell on top. 1660 F. Le Blanc's Trav BROOKE tr. 269 (Cairo) They [women] get all dressed up as' boring with a fixed and Huke hides her face.
. Therefore, Huke v. trans, to cover with or as with a Huke, disguise, cloak.
1613 H. Half-KING pennyw. Wit (ed. 3), Ded. (N.), I. .. shed some 'light from Vaile Lesse spot made for well-meaningHuke and mask made publick shame.
Lovelock
[F. LOVE LOCK # 1 + # 1]
A block of a specific form of courtiers in the times of Elizabeth and James I, later, every curl or lock of hair of a particular character or distinctiveness.
Lyly Midas III 1592. ii. 43 You haue Wil .. Your Loue-Locke wrapped with a touch of silk, or Shagg fal on your shoulders? 1628 Prynne (title) The Love ~ Vnlovelinesse Locke. 1840 Marryat Poor Jack, I, Lovelock, like the sailors of the periodLocks, they wear on their temples. 1894 A. GRIFFITHS Prison Secrets I II II IV. 63 Bandolin make love in locks adorn the bow ~ head and temples used.
transf. 1886 MAXWELL GRAY Silence Dean Maitland I. i. 12 Each [cart] horse wore his mane in love-locks.
Fontang
[Wo Fontang, f. Fontanges the territorial title of a mistress of Louis XIV.]
A big hat in the seventeenth and eighteenth century carried.
1689 Shadwell F. Bury 11,What is the problem, sir? Mazarine End hoods, Fontanges, girdles. 1711 ADDISON SPECT. 98 1 Fontanges This ancient rose three feet above his head. 1883 FG STEPHENS Catal. Prints Brit. Mus. IV 282 is an old ugly woman with one eye in a Fontang.
Biggin
[AF Béguin baby cap. See note BEGIN HOME.]
1. A child's cap.
PALSGR 1530. Note 198 / 1 to Bygge Chylde, beguyne. 1532 MOST refute '. Tindale week. 577 / 2. 1639 Massinger abnormal. Combat IV ii IfI have to turn my hat biggings two heads and nuts? Connoisseur No. 1755 80 (1774) III. 71 This activity of slaps, caps .. Biggens .. as would be the establishment of a maternity hospital. 1819 SCOTT Ivanhoe xxviii is, my brain was on tilt .. Biggin was because the first round his head.
Cadogan
[Apparently from the name of the first Earl Cadogan be († 1726). See Littré, and N. & Q. seventh Ser IV, 467, 492nd]
One way of knotting the hair behind your head.
c1780 B'NESS D'OBERKIRCH Mem (1852) II IX was the Duchess of Bourbon at the court of Montbéliard .. [Mode] Cadogan introduced previously worn only by men.
Toupee
[AF toupees (TUP) of hair, esp. forehead, deriv. (Dim in shape.) Di. Sliding top, bum, tufts of hair, leaves, etc., ad. * LG. Topp-= OHG. Zopf above, clumps, summits, see OFris. Top-knot, top, top toppr Honors, tuft, lock of hair: see # 1 TOP]
1. = Toupee.
1729 Art10 On the politics, we believe that the modern words are eternal? Toupet, and Tompion, cosine and Colmar Hereafter will of a man of few and simple with a wig, a watch, a pair of stays, a fan will be called. 1818 SCOTT Rob Roy fadeurs This VI is that every gentleman has made a toupee to play a girl unhappy. Cornh 1863. May VII 395 wigs are dangerous, unless explicit. A toupee can easily escape.
b. transf. Toupet = b. Obs.
1728 FIELDING Love in Sev. Masques Epil.,Since then, hopefully toupees defense. 1748 RICHARDSON Clarissa week. 1883 VII. 495 A pair of Hairpieces or brocade waistcoat sewn-.. screwed up half their faces taut with acid.
2. The neck of a horse or other animal (OBS.), a thick head of hair (in quot, a black man.).
Sporting X. May 1797 295 The tuft or toupee, that part of the mane which lies between the ears. 1834 III Doctor Southey. (1862) 5 Some of the inhabitants of Congo make a secret fob in their woollyToupet.
3. attrib as toupee-dude-man,-wig;. Toupet-Tit, Crested Tit.
1731 FIELDING Mod HUSB I. IX, meeting with nothing but a bunch of guys toupee, and plaster up their brains in their wigs. 1748 RICHARDSON Clarissa (1811) VII VI. 35 n. toupee mere man, but all boys. a1784 PENNANT Arct. Zool. (1785) II 423 Tit. .. Toupee long feathers on his head, sometimes built in a hood, like a toupee. 1884 E. YATES Rec & exper.II, 238-A carefully prepared toupee wig.
Therefore toupeted nonce-WD. (PTD You, you pe d) a., wearing a toupee.
Smart September 1903 IX. 53 / 2 we will have dinner in the Colonel toupeted.
Kevenhuller
Obs.
[F. The name of the Austrian General André. of Khevenhüller (1683-1744).]
a. attrib. Applied to a high Hahn, the broad-brimmed hat worn in the middle of a 18 ° c. (See Fair Holt costume 299th Eng (1860)), including a hat.b. Absol. A cock of this form, a hat fashion forward to this.
1746 Brit. May 309 A laced hat jammed into what our Beaux have learned, call Kevenhuller Hahn. 1750 COVENTRY Pompey Litt. II iv. (1785) 58 / 1 Jockey-boots, hats and Khevenhullar coach whips. Proc 1753. The Commission of common sense (Fairholt I. 377) Dettingen not forget the tail? the noble Kevenhuller discouraged? 1762 Lond. Chronicle XI. Chapter hats (Planche), the hats are now worn on aOn average, six inches and three-fifths wider brim and stretched between Quaker and Kevenhuller.
Nivernois
Now versions.
[Dormeuse
[Fr;. Fem. Sleeper Dormeur, easily applicable to articles on sleep, sleep dormir et seq.]
1. A hood or nightcap. Obs.
1734 MRS. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) I. 479, I sent you .. daybed a patron. 1753 Let. Mrs Dewes in Life & Corr. 260 had not yet been able to get log.
2. ATouring car adapted to sleep in
1808 M. WILMOT Jrnl. 16. August (1934) III. 363 Us .. Day bed netting four sides by side and two horses in front. 1825 VISC. S. DE Redcliffe in SL Poole Life (1888) 357 I. The two cars are dark green and a day bed Britchka've seen .. in Windsor. 1841 Lytton Nt. & Morn. (1851) 216 A chaise and four drove up to the door of the inn to change horses.
3. A kind of couch or sofa.
1865 Strathmore Ouida I. VI. 94 (Stanf.) was againA daybed in front of the fire.
Fred Belinsky
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