Barbe or barbette: Pleated neck and
shoulder covering worn with a hood (or beguin) by widows until the
time of Catherine de Medici, when it was replaced by a wired-out hood,
dipping low over the forehead or carried out into a beak. For a white
mourning of a young queen, a veiled hood over a wired cap and a pleated
barbe under the chin, such as we associate with Mary of Scotland, was
worn.
Basquine:
Restraining
fitted under bodices of heavy material from which the term basque
comes. Used in the late sixteenth century.
Buckram:
A coarse open weave of linen or cotton sized with glue and used as early
as the sixteenth century as a stiffening for parts of dress. The name
comes form the floor coverings use under fine rung in Bukhara.
Cappa magna:
the long, trailing, luxurious cloak-vestment worn by ecclesiastics on
ceremonial occasions. Usually of watered silk, hooded in ermine; worn in
red by cardinals, violet by bishops.
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