[h-cost] crepines?

A friend found a box in an archive, containing letters and bills. One of the bills was for a young girl in 1748, she had boaght caps, stockings, gloves, piano lessons and linnens for embroidery. There was also a pannier with matching crepiner in danish. Is there a similar word in french, german

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Is it crepins, crepin or crepine? You wrote it three different ways... It could be French, but I'm not sure exactly what it means (yet!). On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Leif og Bjarne Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend found a box in an archive, containing letters and bills. One of the

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Sorry for the confusion, the word is CREPINER and when the word ends with ER it is multiple. Bjarne - Original Message - From: Audrey Bergeron-Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] crepines? Is it

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I did a quick google search and the word crepin (Singular?) shows up frequently as a name- various people and seems to be a location names as well. I think there's a disease as well. the word crepiner shows up again as a name, though not as much under the first search, and as I believe a piece of

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All right, I knew I'd seen crépine somewhere... In French, it's usually used for the hairnet worn under veils and hair bands in the Middle Ages. Doesn't mean it's not used for something else, but that's the common meaning. I'll search some more... ___

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Me again! It seems to be also a coif of some sort. It's also written crespine. I don't know if we have the same crépine as the one you're looking for, but in French, that's what it means. However... logically, it comes from crêpe, or the verb crêper, which can mean to ruffle or pleat in some

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At 17:35 04/07/2008, you wrote: Me again! It seems to be also a coif of some sort. It's also written crespine. I don't know if we have the same crépine as the one you're looking for, but in French, that's what it means. However... logically, it comes from crêpe, or the verb crêper, which can

[h-cost] play costume 1888

Hi all, My 15 year old is in summer school for a production of Jekyll Hyde: The Musical (which concept, btw, makes my skin crawl). The performance dates are Aug. 2 3. Surprise, surprise, parents are responsible for providing the costumes, but the only guidelines are very skimpy. For

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zelda crusher wrote: For example, low class street women are to wear button-up shirts, long full skirts, long sweaters, hats, vests and fingerless gloves in tan, brown, grey and black. Upper class women can wear dark primary colors and the only thing different on the list is that their gloves

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Thank you, Dawn, I had hoped you would reply. Your knowledge base is so varied and always practical! Laurie Subject: Re: [h-cost] play costume 1888 zelda crusher wrote: For example, low class street women are to wear button-up shirts, long full skirts, long sweaters, hats, vests and

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Message: 9 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:35:54 -0400 From: Audrey Bergeron-Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] crepines? To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Me again! It seems to be also a coif of some sort.