On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, jlkelley wrote: > KP> Looking 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?!
> 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. I wondered if it was just an archaic spelling for "flows" or a related word. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
