> What's bothering me here is, why should these headdresses be associated > with roosters? Roosters are male, and these are female fashions. Yes, I > know a cock has a "comb" on its head but still, this seems to be a stretch. > Even if it's an insult, it seems to me that there should be some kind of > rationale behind the term and that should be recognizable.
It could be some cuckold variant. Taking the comb from the male and wearing it herself? http://www.jstor.org/pss/539989 "Then they also cut off the rooster's crest in order to remove all of his virility." http://tinyurl.com/ybn59lo A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature Volume 2 By Gordon Williams. Michaela who spent many years studying Shakespeare and Chaucer and cannot think of these times as prude in any way shape or form ;) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
