. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . rp; oramiable like an inamorato, or broad pendant like aspade ; to be terrible like a warrior and a soldado ;to have his appendices primed, or his mustachiosfostered to turn about his eares like ye branches ofa vine. A broad square-cut beard spreading at the endslike an open fan is the cathedral beard of RandleHolme, so called because grave men of the churchdid wear it. It is often seen in portraits. Oneof these is shown on page 357. In the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, 1731, shewrites of her grandfather, a Turkey-merchant: — The Beard 35
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . rp; oramiable like an inamorato, or broad pendant like aspade ; to be terrible like a warrior and a soldado ;to have his appendices primed, or his mustachiosfostered to turn about his eares like ye branches ofa vine. A broad square-cut beard spreading at the endslike an open fan is the cathedral beard of RandleHolme, so called because grave men of the churchdid wear it. It is often seen in portraits. Oneof these is shown on page 357. In the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, 1731, shewrites of her grandfather, a Turkey-merchant: — The Beard 357 He was very nice inthe Mode of his Age —his Valet being some hoursevery morning in Starchinghis Beard and Curling hisWhiskers during whichTime a Gentleman whomhe maintaind as Compan-ion always read to him uponsome useful subject. So we may believethey really starched their beards, stiffenedthem with some , the Water Poet (1640), says of beards Some seem as they were starched stiff and fineLike to the Bristles of some Angry Dr. William Beard.
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