This is interesting! I tried to look the word up in the Grimm German Etymological dictionary and didn't find a thing...then it occurred to me that it probably wasn't spelled the same...as the German word for Hungary is Ungarn. Still no luck.... The "line" part of the word is probably a derivation of "lein" which is a diminutive. So something like "little Hungarian [Jacket]. (Like "brüstlein" is the one word for corset/stays)
I will forward the question on to my German costuming list because there are several people there with better resources than I. (I am assuming that will be okay - if not, you can yell at me :).) I will also attempt to find it in Max Von Boehn's works since I have them in German. Sg _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
