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From: "Saragrace Knauf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:55 AM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] Re: slops for women
Anyone have access to the OED? I don't anymore, but it is always fun to
look there for some clues.
Sg
good idea, I did just that I've copied the relevant definition below which
specifically mentions it's use for women's mourning in the 16th century.
Elizabeth
2. a. An outer garment, as a loose jacket, tunic, cassock, mantle, gown,
or smock-frock.
For modern examples cf. the Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Slop n.21.
c1386 CHAUCER Pars. T. 422 The..scantnesse of clothyng as been thise kutted
sloppes or haynselyns. c1440 York Myst. xxxi. 77 Se at my sloppe be wele
sittande. c1440 Promp. Parv. 460/1 Sloppe, garment, mutatorium. c1489 CAXTON
Sonnes of Aymon xxi. 466 Gyve me a newe sloppe and a large hode. 1523 LD.
BERNERS Froiss. I. clxxvi. 213 He armed hymselfe with secrete armour, and
dyd on a sloppe aboue, and a cloke aboue that. a1548 HALL Chron., Hen. VIII,
55b, The mantels had great capes like to the Portingal slopys. a1618
SYLVESTER Hymn of Alms 195 Wks. (Grosart) II. 210 To see some painted face,
Or Fire~new Fashion in a Sleeve or slop. a1668 DAVENANT News fr. Plymouth
IV. i, I will embrace thy long loose slopp and kiss Thy drivell'd Beard.
1825 KNAPP & BALDWIN Newgate Cal. III. 448/2 A slop or shirt over it. 1841
BORROW Zincali I. i, He was dressed in a coarse waggoner's slop. 1881 YOUNG
Ev. Man his own Mechanic 12 The clothes of the amateur..should be protected
at least by a loose 'slop' or jacket of canvas.
b. spec. (See quot.) Obs.1
15.. Bk. of Precedence in Q. Eliz. Acad. 28 A slope is a morning Cassock for
Ladyes and gentile wemen, not open before.
c. (See quot.) Obs.0
1688 HOLME Armoury II. 395/2 A Womans face proper, with a Slop on her
head..; the attire..makes me judge it to be rather some kind of Slop or
Maunch for the head... Some term this a French Hood pendant.
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