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Significados de biggin em inglês

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Historical headgear, a close-fitting cap for a woman or child, 16th and 17th century.

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Examples for "coif"
Examples for "coif"
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She was wearing no coif, but a jewel glittering on her breast.
The Secret Eleanor
2
Whilst forming a coif it also completely covers the back and shoulders.-Trans
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1
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The wind stirred her black habit and touched gently her white coif.
Long Live the King!
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The rain ran down the mail coif under his plain iron helmet.
Stonewielder
5
Hair Keep your strands carefree and cute with this bohemian babe-inspired coif.
Ebony
1
'Nae guards wi' biggonets for Kennedy McClure,' says I.
Patsy
Uso de biggin em inglês
1
Often a velvet cap was worn outside the biggin or lace cap.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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I have seen it stated that the biggin was a night-cap.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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By Shakespere's day biggin had become wholly a term for a child's cap.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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The French coffee biggin is valuable for this.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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As he whose brow with homely biggin bound
Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof
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But to be reduced from helmet and steel coat to biggin and gown in a night brawl-
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
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This was altered in spelling to biggin, and for a time a nun's plain linen cap was thus called.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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I bet he's a biggin.
The marrowbone marble company
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Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.
The Children of the New Forest
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He presently brought her a biggin of fine white sand, which brought the shore of Surrey to my mind's eye.
The Morgesons: A Novel
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Your news has put me in a fever, continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer.
The Children of the New Forest
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To make coffee without boiling, you must have a biggin, the best sort of which is what in France is called a Grecque.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
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At Marton the father worked for a Mr. Mewburn, living in a small cottage built of mud, called in the district a clay biggin.
The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator
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Hardly had we got into the tiny thatched house-oncea mere "clay biggin"-whereBurns was born, than the four appeared on the scene.
The Heather-Moon
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He nodded to Biggin and then acknowledged Rutledge just behind the sergeant.
The red door
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Sergeant Biggin asks if you can come to the clinic at once?
The red door
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