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Chapter 25

Finis

Notes: Critical and Explanatory: The Wandering Beauty.

p. 451 two Pinners. A pinner is ‘a coif with two long flaps one on each side pinned on and hanging down, and sometimes fastened at the breast . . . sometimes applied to the flaps as an adjunct of the coif.’—N.E.D. cf. Pepys, 18 April, 1664: ‘To Hyde Park . . . and my Lady Castlemaine in a coach by herself, in yellow satin and a pinner on.’