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No 16 Head dress
Saxons & both the Saxon & Danish Ladies appear to have usd a Part of the Danes garment which formd thier outer Covering as a head dress Strutt
Kerchef Coverchef cheff in old French signified head The Giant antigone in Philips entry into antwerp had "Sur Son cheef une chapeau &c the next improvement appears to have been a separate Peice of fine Linnen Placd on the head & falling gracefully down over the shoulders in the Case of Great Personages it was fixd to the head by a Circlet of metal in others by some [tache?] or [fatchet?] which is not visible in the figure this Loose habillement might be turnd into a variety of Forms to hide the face as a veil to shade it from the sun or to hang loosely & Elegantly on either side or behind Strut
muffler a kercheif or muffler Alveary veil? coverchef or Chaperon
kerchief is now usd for a [vesture?] worn on the head of women going to church alveary
1380? Early in the Reign of Rich 2nd the women usd high attire on their heads & Piked horns Stowe p 295 See Strut Vol 2 Pl V1 for Ladies head dresses
Kercheif Calld a Voluper English Expositour
The head dresses of the English Ladies had always been large Lofty at this time both the English & the French Ladies increed them to an enormous size
1416 When Isobel of Bavarie Consort of Ch 6th kept her Court at Vincennes it was found necessary to make all the Doors of the Palace both higher & wider to admit the head dresses of the Queen & her Ladies Villanet tom 13 p 423 Monstrelet Pasquier
1461 Elizabeth Queen of Edwd 4th in Hardings Print, The nurse who holds in her arms the young Earl of warwick? Strutt vol 2 Pl 7
1399 & that of Queen Jane Queen of Hen 4th Do. Pl: 11 are similar & Singular
1380? Queen anne wife to K Richd 2nd brought in high head attire Piked with Horns She first taught the Ladies to ride on Side Saddles Camdens Remains
1582 Their hair is Curled Frizled & Crisped Laid in wreaths or borders from one Ear to the other underpind with forks & wyers on the Edges of their bolsterd hair which hangs over their Faces like a Pentice (Petithouse) These are Cald wreaths of Gold & Silver & hanged Bugles [vi]ches Rings Gold Silver & Glasse
Then on the tops of these Stately Turretts I mean their Goodly heads Stand other Capital ornaments as French hood Cap hat kercher Whereof some be of velvet some of Taffetie & a few of wool
they have Cowles also made netwise to the end that the Gold cloth or Silver or Tinsel with which their heads are attyred may Show itself under their Cowles in the bravest manner Stubbes anatomy of abuses
1380 Billements The attire or ornaments of a womans head or neck or a Bonet a French hoode a Paste or such Like alveary
+ Paaste See Bonnet Do Paaste a mop or wedge Do
a Caule to Cover the heare as maydons do
a Coife to Tress up the heare Do
1530 the Daug[th]er of John Nevile had on her marriage 3 Paasts Role of [Cure] a Lattice Bonnet or Cap for a Gentlewoman Golds:Rider
Coronet Settee the Settee hangd down from the tip of the head below the Breasts & is generaly Laced on both Sides & Ends or else wrought with Needlework this is a Great Tasheen 1606 Rand Holme B 2 p 402. No. 124
See Bonnets No 22 + det [kleedt?] Past my well that habit suits (Lied) me well Flemish