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Cunny/coney/conie/cony skinns.
A coney was a rabbit - mentioned in Gervase Markham's The English Housewife written in the early 17th century (McGill-Queen's U.P., 2003,chapter 2, paragraph 54).
'A conie is so called because they make cuniculos, is little holes or burrows under the ground'. Quoted in Janet Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, Maney, 1988, p.362.
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Black hoods
Black hoods, often of silk ('taffetie'), were a popular type of headgear for women. According to Mary Evelyn, daughter of the writer and diarist John Evelyn, a fashionable lady required: 'Hoods by whole dozens, White and black'. Mary Evelyn, Mundus Muliebris or The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, (London, 1690), reprinted by the Costume Society, 1977. Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) produced a number of finely detailed engravings of costume, some of which depict women wearing hoods. 'Winter' from his Four Seasons series provides a lovely example (The Four Seasons. Wenceslas Hollar, J.L. Nevinson and Ann Saunders, The Costume Society, London, 1979). The University of Toronto's online 'Hollar Digital Collection' shows several images of women wearing hoods.
- This is live. Lovely piece! - PaulaMarmor (talk) 18:17, March 22, 2018 (UTC)
