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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… OED. In the plural, trunks were an abbreviation of trunk HOSE. These were an article of APPAREL fashionable in the … example, 'iiij dublet bodyes ij trussys and iijj pere of hose' [Inventories (1555)], or 'ij Jerkins a dublet A trusse ij paire of hose' [Inventories (1589)]. At about the same time the same …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… dressed & undressed' [Inventories (1719)] and 'white silk hose dressed and undressed' [Newspapers (1790)]. In such …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Spaniard, and, as I am told, is entirely taken up with his hose and his braid. In the city they don't call him Prince of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… before his beloved. He had in particular a pair of blue hose and a collar such as they wear in England. When the … Finally the Count of la Puebla frankly asked him for the hose as a present, hinting that it was not becoming for him …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… crossed from England, and they are receiving supplies of hose, jerkins, and arms, being naked and needy, as implied by …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… The Earls then unrobed the King, leaving him in vest and hose of white satin, unlaced; he then knelt before the altar, …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… One of them came to my house in a doublet and slashed hose with a cod piece ( bragetto) in the Swiss fashion. 10 …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the money to return to England and also 21 francs for the hose and spectacles. Paris, the 13th December, 1628. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… their appearance, dressed uniformly, six having the entire hose crimson with plaited doublets of white satin trimmed … other six wore breeches down to the knee, with the half hose also crimson, and white shoes. These matched well their …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… encourage some other artisan who is a perfect workman at hose, cord making and other things manufactured there, and …
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