You have to remember that "hose" is the word for all sorts of things from trunk hose to "tights". Sometimes it just means "pants", like venetians or slops. The sentence is question is "he said to her, Go fetch me the white hose lined with white taffeta which I left In a certain chest when I went away." That to me means trunk hose..
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Pixel, Goddess and Queen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The account of the Martin Guerre trial mentions white hose lined with white > taffeta. The account was published in 1572 (translation here: > http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/documents/coras.htm). > > Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 ISBN 978-0-9818401-0-9 Available at http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback. CANADIAN readers may want to use http://www.amazon.ca/Compendium-Common-Knowledge-1558-1603/dp/0981840108 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
