I found some unusual and obscure words, while looking back at the history of hats and hairstyles. Having just finished reading The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester, HarperCollins 1998) about the origin of the Oxford English Dictionary, I thought it might be fun to explore the definitions and etymology of some of these ancient terms, many of which have almost disappeared from modern usage. [I break this project into three or four parts, will remain sotuned.]
To qualify for inclusion below, the show floor, with a wavy red line tool to Microsoft Word "spell check". So here goes:
[Note: As I move into the third part of this project, at least, lost in antiquity. I've included a few words, though seldom used today, which appear "spell check" is.]
Lighter
Now hist.
1 A chest with a protruding edge, fashionable esp. the 19 Century.
C. Joy Smith in 1801 Dibdin song & Living (1807)62, I hammer the songs of the bars, if you like, as soon fashion'd new look, or until hoods hit. 1820 F. Hermit in London V. MacDonogh XCII. 35 more and more annoying is your poke-bonnet ladies, who sometimes has his eye screenings with this attic. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton 's Ernest Maltravers II, IV and VI. 67 A few middle-aged gentleman .. wear .. Straw bonnets hit. RS 1858 SURTEES Ask Mom ix, [A] woman .. painted in an old sack hoods of days before. 1884 cents.28 May 14 Eight or nine men, women and children, with their hats and coats with high collars bag of the year 1839. 1913 W. Cather's O Pioneers! II 12 This guy was in town then known as the "Kate Greenaway" manner .. Lace her, gave her the look of a woman dressed in picturesque. 1984, p. ALLEN historical Galleries of Cumbria (BNC) 18 Married women wore a cap, a blue linen apron .., neb hoof-shaped shoes with buckle for better wear resistance, coat and hat bag outerwear .
2Spec. A hood of this type, which traditionally women by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the Salvation Army, etc. So wear: a support for this type of hood.
1848 JR BARTLETT Dict. Americanisms sv, Poke-bonnet, a long bonnet and straight, led away from the Quakers and Methodists. 1862 H. Marryat a year in Sweden LVI II. 264 .. We ate at a farm owned by the Anabaptists, a sect more numerous in Gotland. There is no doubt the women lowered their eyesbag and bonnets blacks. Rev. 1877 Sat 12 May 577 / 2 in Croydon, Dorking, and other gatherings of friends, .. wide-brimmed hats for men, and hit near bonnets for women, are still visible. 1899 St. James' Gaz. August 17 2.11 Never from the church .. reached or other spiritual organizations, except perhaps the "caps bag" on street corners. 1902 E. BANKS Autobiogr. 107 The Journal Old Lace Girl dress and dark blue that I thought I would not until Ispent a couple of days to explore what is the best way to join the army. 1945 Musical D 31 276 Amish women are easily identified by their hats, bags, scarves, and a total lack of ornamentation in their clothing. 2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 May 36 A Pennsylvania Amish bonnet in a strike goes on, happy as a bug.
Gibus
f. Gibus the name of the manufacturer first.]
An opera or crush hat. Even Gibus hat.
1848 snobby Thackeray, Book XVIII, with his hat and his little Gibuspumps glass. a1854 E. FORBES Lit Papers viii. (1855) 214 No man ever offered in a public or private Gibus reverence, respect. April 28, 1888 Daily Tel 02/05 The hat folding or crushing hump.
[Note from Belinsky: Today is a Gibus is more common than "Folding Top Hat" is unknown.]
Riding Casquette
[Friday;. Fem. of Casquete, dim. CASQUE a helmet.]
A hat is like a helmet.
1840 LS COSTELLO Summ. II, 206 were Bocages The long hair of a closeCasquette Eastern-looking.
[AF helmet ad. Sp helmet in the same direction: see CASK No]
1 A piece of armor covering the head, a helmet. A term very loosely to all kinds of military head pieces, and now only historical, poetical, or foreign. Previously written barrel.
1580-1649 [see CASK No 4]. 1696 PHILLIPS, Casque, a helmet. 1714 GAY Trivia III. 363 The fireman sweats beneath the twisted arms, defending a leather helmet head vent'rous. 1791 COWPER Iliad III. 375 isagitation in a bronze helmet. 1842 Tennyson Galahad 1 My good blade carves the helmets of the men. 1877 Daily News 24 Dec. 5 / 4 The miter-like helmet Pauloff Guard Regiment.
Bandeau style
[Fri OF. Bandel, dim. Form of bands BAND No.2, see BANDORE2].
a. narrow band or fillet worn by women to bind their hair, or as part of a hat. b. A blindfold.
1706 T. Betterton Amorous Widow I. 4 The most beautiful hair does not become your curls beautiful'stFront, as well as notice. c1790 F. Burney's Diary (1842) I. 98 (D) That bandeau .. worn by every woman at court. a1847 MRS. Lady of Sherwood Manor III. xxi. 277 Thus, this form band for my hair. ? C. Mathews 1858 autobiography. (1879) I, in a short blue sky laced with bandeau. 1861 January P. THOMPSON Audi Alt III. clxi. 175 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, as Paul said of luck, Louis, under his belt. 1908 [see BARRETTE 2]. Sunday Times 22 April 1959 5 / 5 as small as it iscan and should still be called a band and bow are trapped in a cage of veiling.
c. A strip of velvet or other materials are usually made in a round shape in the bottom of the crown of a hat that is too big to be sewn to the head.
29 January 1908 Daily Chron 04.07 With the right kind of "end" .. You do not need to wear a pin at all.
Sennit Straw
Naut.
[Var of Sinnet.]
a. = Sinnet. b. (See quot. In 1858.)
1769 FALCONER Dict. Marine(1789), Sennit. 1858 SIMMONDS Dict. Commerce, Sennit, .. woven straw or palm leaves, etc., of which hats are made of grass. 1881 in 92 career checkered These young people see .. what Sennett, whose entertainment on par with the collection tow.
attrib. and comb. 1882 Nautica nostrils (ed. 6) 79 One eye in sennit J. c1898 Chalmers Lovett in the Life (1902) 146 The long rope sennit continued to work on the bridge in order to be transmitted to the local reef.
[Note from Belinsky: TodaySennit Straw is more commonly as the "Boater" or "skimmer" or "Sailor Straw" to know.]
Montero
Now hist.
[Cadogan
[Apparently from the name of the first Earl Cadogan (died 1726) to be. See Littré, and N. & D. 7 Ser IV 467, 492]
One way of knotting the hair behind your head.
c1780 B'NESS On OBERKIRCH Mem (1852) ix II, the duchess of Bourbon had introduced at the court of Montbéliard .. [Mode] Cadogan, formerly worn only byMen.
Postiglione has
Now mostly versions.
[Puggree
[A. Hind. Page turban.]
1 A light turban or head-dress of the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent worn.
1665 SIR T. HERBERT Trav. (1677) 140 East people .. as .. how to wear a turban, and mandils Puggarees Dustar. 1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 314 with one or Puggarie turban on their heads. 1698 FRYER Acc E. India & P. 93 In Green Vest and Puckery (or disturbance). 1845 SIR W. NAPIER Conq. Sind II i.224 The Mohammedan Belooch always obeyed him, bringing the Puggree. 1893 W. FORBES-MITCHELL Remin. Gt. The latter wore voluminous Mutiny 287 puggries thick around their heads. 1930 Aberdeen Press & JRNL. It has 05.02 on April 22 British officers and non-uniform, with the exception of a distinctive type seabream (hats). October 1930 first punch 392 / 2 Mr. Thompson should not let this bee to find a permanent home in his sea bream. 1974 'B. MOTHER 'White 18 brigands Sowar pagris tunics and straightened.
2 AThin muslin scarf or a veil of silk wrapped around the crown of a hat or sun helmet and behind like a shadow.
1859 DICKENS throughout the year, July 30 332 / 1 A 'Puggery' is a slip of the long white muslin, which is tied around the hat and then in a great arc, with the tail. Cornh 1866. May December 741 A coat of silk, a puggree, boots and white laces, ornate richer. February 20, 1885 1:06 time and the men were officers in red serge tunics, .. Sun puggarees helmets and clothing. 1901 B.Shaw Three Plays for Purite. Captain Brass-bound 215 I. Put on your pith helmet and Pagrati, neutral colored glasses and the white sand sneakers Spanish.
3 attrib. how puggree-cloth.
1934 [see # 5 DRILL]. 1978 "I Have MM Kaye 'Pavilions. 98, slept soundly .. to him by a length of seabream (turban) cloth, which has tied prevented from falling.
Therefore Pugg (a) tube a. covered or wearing a puggree.
1881 MRS. C. Praed & Policy IP 13 A wide-brimmed puggareedHat. Daily News August 1 1900 01.03 A graceful motion of its green, soft floppy hat puggareed.
Convertible
[AF Cabriolet, deriv. of cabriole, so called from its elastic movement of demarcation.]
1 a. A light two-wheeled cart pulled by a horse, covered with a hood large wooden or leather, and a large apron in her lap and legs of the passenger. Known for 1830 and the CAB, and in later times on a vehicle with this name is applied. Even the top or open a car. b. ACar with fixed sides and a roof.
2 A bonnet or hat in the form of a convertible.
1771 H. WALPOLE Let. July 31 (1904) 63, I have two convertible tailored for them, instead of six, because I like to think. 1923 e 22nd June 11 convertible hats are in fashion again ... With a convertible, you must fall on the shoulder ribbon streamers.
Marcel Wave
[Psyche Knot
[A. Gr (In L. ch ps) f. breath to breathe, to blow, (later) to cool;so that life (identified with or indicated by air), the animating principle in man and other living beings, the source of all important activities, rational or irrational, the soul or spirit, as opposed to his vehicle physical or body, sometimes as being able to persist in a disembodied state after separation from the body since the time of death.
In mythology, personified as in 1c. Extended with Plato and other philosophers to the anima mundi, conceived to animate the generalSystem of the universe as the soul animates the individual organism. With St. Paul (developing a current Jewish distinction between rua, mind and breath, and nephesh, soul) for the hipster or just a natural man, in common with other animals, in contrast with the use or the 'alcohol, higher than expected occurred element of divine influence on the original constitution of human nature unregenerate: PSYCHIC see a. 2, 2 MENTAL (For these and other developments inpre-Christian Judaism and the NT writings, see RH Charles, Hist. the doctrine of a future life, 1899.)]
1 The soul or spirit from the body, the mind.
1658 SIR T. BROWNE typical of Hydra. iv. 61 Because the psyche or soul of Tiresias is the male gender. 1794 SULLIVAN View Nat. II 279 The essential ingredient in all earthly things two, with the ancient Greeks called the psyche Hyle et spiritus and that is matter, soul and body. Virchow in 1877 trTyndall fragm. Sc (1879) II XV. 407 If I attraction and repulsion, such as exhibits to explain the mind, as mental phenomena, I just throw it out the window, the psyche and the mind ceases to be a psyche. LEWES Psychol 1879 Studio 73 The most widely accepted [old] thinkers not only humans from nature, but a spirit of detachment from the body, they invented a Psyche as the source of all psychic phenomena. March 1888 New Princeton Rev. 272 Psychology is the science of the psyche or soul. 1896 P.GARDNER Tombs carved Hellas 24 The psyche of Homer is not at all as a Christian soul, but a double dark of a man sought the same strength and wisdom. CONTEMPORARY EJ DILLON in 1905. Rev. August 287, it is difficult to understand the position of the image and psyche Rozhdestvensky [the Russian admiral, who fired on the North Sea fishing fleet].
b. The principle that animates the universe as a whole, the world soul or anima mundi.
1647 H. Song MORE 'SoulNotes 138 / 2 This is the entrance of the psyche in the body of Vniverse, twigs and dead exciting the nebula. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. I. iv. § 21 388 This is taken from Plotinus, for the eternal mind, which produces an active all Things, in this lower world, according to these divine ideas. Ibid. § 23 406 in other places .. He often said that the first self-propelled ~ psyche and stood motionless Nous or Intellect, which was really the Demiurge.
c. Later GreekMythol, as the lover of Eros (Cupid or Love), and represented in works of art such as butterfly wings like a butterfly or content;. In the literature as a heroine of the story in The Golden Ass of Apuleius known connection. Hence attrib. in the sense of "how the mind", as in the psyche-knot (of hair), mind-rot, work psyche.
1876 GEO. ELIOT Dan L '. LXI, in-mold the psyche of Mirah, the frame rested a fervid quality of emotion, sometimes rashly will require the mostCleopatra. 1888 AR 170 DIEHL Two Thousand Words Psyche knot to wear the style your hair into a coil projecting into the middle of the back of the head. SB KENNEDY Outing in 1895 (United States) Oct. 02/08 Do you think this special section of the Psyche knot fits my form? 1901 Westmere. Gaz. May-28 04:02 After loading many psychological tasks destiny hours decrypted, the hope is nothing more to do. 1904 Ibid. November 30 4 / 2, I'm not quite sure I know what a "knot Psyche", which was what the jet blacks hair womanhas been redesigned. 1968 J. Couples Updike v. 404 Her hair was noted in a Psyche knot.
Fred Belinsky
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