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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Bergamot pomatum [bergamot ditto] A POMATUM for the hair scented with BERGAMOT, probably intended for use with a HAIR POWDER similarly scented. Not found in the OED online …
A History of the County of London
… 1661, that to see the people bow to the altar made their hair stand on end, for it was mere mountebank play. 231 …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… employed ten men and two boys in 1881) became a flockand hair-manufacturing mill from c.1903 to 1906, owned by John …
Old and New London
… parchment-makers, wool-staplers, horsehair manufacturers, hair and flock manufacturers, patent hairfelt manufacturers. … of hides exposed to the action of lime, for loosening the hair with which the pelt is covered; and in an adjoining …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… and social history with special reference to Boyd's hair factory (Street, 1980) R. Madge, Somerset Railways …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… but this same piece could also be worn separately as a hair ornament. Biliments have not been noted after 1660. The …
Old and New London
… in the last of which a demivirgin, with dishevelled hair, is modestly conspicuous. The interior contains a large … that the women's skulls were distinguished by their long hair, and of others the flesh was not quite perished, so that … Turkey carpet, a goodly muster of lumbering mahogany horse-hair seated chairs, a long table in the centre, with a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… gimp lace, GLASS CASE, GLOVES, GOWN, GRATE, GROGRAM, HAIR, HAMBURG.HANDKERCHIEF, HAT, HINGE, HOOD, HOOK AND EYE, … comb] A type of HORSE COMB or CURRY COMB for dressing the hair of a HORSE, apparently distinctive for more than its …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… is defined as 'A comb made of lead and used to colour the hair' [Cox (1966, pb 1969)]. Randle Holme's definition is similar; 'Lead combs, used by such as haue red hair, to make it of another colour' [Holme (2000)]. There are … that was dipped in BLACK LEAD and then combed through the hair in order to disguise greying hair and restore it to …