frislet
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]frislet (plural frislets)
- A kind of small ruffle.
- 1907 March 2, “Old Clo'”, in Living Age Company (Seventh; XXXIV)[1], volume CCLII, number 3269, page 574:
- Wimples, colfs, cascanets, carkenels, fusles, frislets, palisadoes, who cares about them any more?
- 1907, Dion Clayton Calthrop, English Costume Painted and Described by Dion Clayton Calthrop[2], Adam and Charles Black, page 340:
- In this medley of things we shall see purles, falles, […] parlets, frislets, fillets, […] and whalebone wheels—Eve!
- 1912, Fielding Burke, The mortal gods: and other plays[3], Scribner's, page 219:
- For it is shame enough to 've thought to make
A frislet of their own shake like the locks
Of cloud-hared Zeus.
- 1968, Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), quoting Thomas Tomkis, edited by Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th viscount), Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority[4], 1st edition, 1607, quoted in Costume in England: History, Singing Tree Press, pages 294–295:
- such stir with sticks and combs […] partlets, frislets, bandlets, […] and so many lets, that yet she is scarce drest to the girdle.
- 2012 May 11, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, “Woadmongers and frislets.”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement[5], number 5693, London, England: NI Syndication Limited, page 21:
- Unfamiliar words abound, including many intriguing professional roles --ippers, woadmongers, cordwainers--and objects--perukes, frislets (small ruffles) and spangles.
References
[edit]- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “FRISLET”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC.