Having read quite a few penny dredfuls I have heard the term before. If you wad up a pice of cloth to a wound and then remove it and unfold the cloth you will have an impresionistic flower. So blood flowers on cloth. Not sure if that is exactly what they ment in the defination.
just my penny's worth jonica . Looking KP> up "sangue" in Florios' 1611 Italian-English KP> Dictionary garners me a broad variety of derivatives KP> that can be applied to a woman's menstrual blood. KP> Looking up "menses" I get a period (pardon the pun) KP> term for a woman's monthly: KP> "M<e'>nstruo: a womans monethly(sic) termes, issues, KP> fluxes, sheddings or flowers. Also silver(?) among KP> Alchemists." KP> Flowers?! -- Best regards, jlkelley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
