Yes, I knew the water wringer type of mangle is period, as it is hand
powered. I was not aware there was an electric-ironing type. My original
problem with the entire piece, was that in the book, the guy said that you
would run the clothes through a mangle AFTER ironing! It was meant to be a
funny
Kate Bunting wrote:
It's not my area of interest, but as I can read French and am interested in words I looked at the
Gay book out of curiosity. All I got when I searched on "hennin" was a virtual clipping
from the book showing the word "coiffet", and I was unable to proceed further. How do you
It's not my area of interest, but as I can read French and am interested in
words I looked at the Gay book out of curiosity. All I got when I searched on
"hennin" was a virtual clipping from the book showing the word "coiffet", and I
was unable to proceed further. How do you get to see the story
