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Middlemarch vocabulary
19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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poke bonnet
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synonyms: Neapolitan bonnet ???
tags: [fashion]
► definition
Definition:a bonnet with a large projecting front brim. It was very popular in the 1800's.
photo: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26061712
image: By Unknown artist, published by Aaron Martinet - Rijksmuseum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51723652
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"I am having my hair done to match that quakery thin pale mousey dress with the tiny poke bonnet—and I want to try my face too. I must look sweet and demure. You mustn't really laugh when you wear a dress and hat like that. You must only smile."
Frances Burnett. The Head of the House of Coombe (1922)
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the dress might have seemed right enough: the grace and dignity were in her limbs and neck; and about her simply parted hair and candid eyes the large round poke
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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