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Amusing quote from this book
Part of the enjoyment of reading old stories like this is the discovery of words that are no longer in use or whose meanings have changed over the years.
However, I did a double take when reading this passage from part 7:
"...she artlessly suffered the morning air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver."
I looked up some alternate meanings of the word beaver and the best match I could find was related to a type of fabric used for over garments but that does not seem to fit the context.
Does anyone else know what this could refer to?
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When I asked google to define beaver, one of the answers I got was this:
a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)Mar 29, 2008 5:05 pm
by moof -
That is possible but the thought of a beaver skin hat makes me think more of the American mountain men of the 19th century than the women of the 18th.
Perhaps it was the addition of the green veil that made it more ladylike.
by cresswga
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