Hence " to cabbage onto" something?
Kimberly Wageman-Prack 817-468-1498 817-454-4039 cell [email protected] > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:31:40 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Cabbage question > > > > On 4/19/2011 11:31 AM, Stacey Dunleavy wrote: > > The shoddy manufacturing is interesting - I was thinking pre-industrial > > revolution. I can't comprehend that cloth that had been painstakingly spun > > and woven would be simply stuffed inside a pillow. My modern mindset keeps > > thinking that the thrifty Medieval or Elizabethan housewife would at least > > save them for clothing repairs, or consoldated with other scraps for > > blankets. > > According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "garbage, carbage" and > possibly "cabbage" were used in the 17th century to refer to stuffing > (or interfacting?) materials. > > Herrick Hesper. (Hazl.) I. 79 "Upon some Women, Pieces, patches, ropes > of haire, In-laid garbage ev'rywhere." II. 325 Upon Lupes, "His credit > cannot get the inward carbage for his cloathes as yet." > > Regarding cabbage as a perk, early 18th century: "Taylors are so called, > because of their‥Love of that Vegetable. The Cloth they steal and > purloin‥is also called Cabbage." "Your taylor instead of shreads, > cabages whole yards of cloath." > > Fran > Lavolta Press > Two new books of 1880s clothing patterns! > www.lavoltapress.com > www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
