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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… head, like the 'Silk, Silver, and Italian Egretts for the Hair' promoted by one retailer [Tradecards (18c.)]. The … 1645 Found described as in immitation of GARNETs, for the hair, ITALIAN Found made of SILK, SILVER Sources: Tradecards. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Alchemy comb [alcemie comb] Presumably a COMB for the hair made of ALCHEMY. Since the alloy called alchemy was …
Old and New London
… odd learning; and errant 'prentice-boys, their rough hair on end at the wonders of some story-books, which they …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a colouring agent in oily or greasy compounds as a POMADE, hair oil or OINTMENT. It cannot be used to colour water [Wren … and SOAP, and cosmetic preparations such as rouge and HAIR POWDER (see ALMOND POWDER). In the Dictionary Archive … it was invariably applied to a PASTE for applying to the hair, presumably made from and therefore smelling of ALMONDS. …
A History of the County of London
… He is described as going about 'barefooted and with long hair, under the guise of sanctity . . . . . saying that he …
A History of the County of Warwick
… prominence amounting almost to distortion. He has long hair, and a bearded, receding chin. He wears a buttoned …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… on the ground, and others out of madness pulled their hair, and wrang and twisted their hands, in the same time …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… his fate, and they have given out that if H.M. touches the hair of any of their heads, they will deliver the sword into …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… thought Gabriel to be no Tomahittan by the length of his hair, and when they had scoured his skin with water and …