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Picadilly in the Reign of Richd the 2nd the Ladies wore a Gorget Calld a Chevesail for as yet they used no bands about the neck Camdens Remains p 255 Gorget a womans neck dress Baileys dict Pickadille in French Peccadille a Peice fastend about the Top of the Collar of a Doublet menshau dict "The gorget Standing up being Supported by wyers & a kind of Roll calld a P which they Call a Piccadilla" Randle Holmes Evelyn in his description of the [Neif] that [need] al if ch 1st & Henrietta [Triena] says about her Shoulders a band or gorget Plaited & Standing up Spred like a Fan p. 106
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