These chintzes seem to have been the intermediate wear between homespun of either flax or wool and the creamy satins or the thick "paduasoy," the more flexible "lutestring" silks, worn by great ladies of the period, and the wrought India muslins for less conventional occasions. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
Betsy Davy mourned young Walker with all her heart in spite of dressing in sprigged paduasoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Olivia had a bodice of paduasoy that came low upon her shoulders and showed a spray of jasmine in the cleft of her rounded breasts, which heaved with what Count Victor could not but perceive was some emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Thus I stared at balmacaans and surtouts, dolmans and jerkins of paduasoy, matelasse, and a hundred other costly fabrics without ever going into the places that displayed them, or even stopping to examine them. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
The women wore full skirts of say, paduasoy or silk of varied colors, long, pointed stomachers, -- often with bright tone, -- full, sometimes puffed or slashed sleeves, and lace collars or "whisks" resting upon the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Women Who Came in the Mayflower] Reference
Her morning gown was a pale primrose-coloured paduasoy: the cuffs and robins curiously embroidered by the fingers of this ever-charming Arachne, in a running pattern of violets and their leaves, the light in the flowers silver, gold in the leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Highness's chamber half the morning, disputing over a paduasoy for the. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
How I wish I could do anything now with the same zest and rapture with which I put on Lydia's paduasoy and patches!. From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
The chevalier would then brush away the snuff which had settled in the folds of his waistcoat or his paduasoy breeches. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
Her black paduasoy gown, full at the waist and only touching her ankles, was covered with a spotless white apron with deep pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
She made her début at the Duchess of Devonshire's much to her own satisfaction, in a robe of white paduasoy, brocaded with silver. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
She wore her best Sunday black paduasoy, and a hood over the frills of her lace cap, which was tied with whimples under her chin, fastened by a small diamond brooch. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
She must have been of some consideration, for she was dressed in paduasoy and lace with hanging sleeves, and the old carved frame showed how the picture had been prized by its former owners. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Our baby, too, saw little of sun or sea; for, being but a sickly baby, with hardly vitality enough to live from day to day, it was kept below, smothered in the finest of linens and the softest of paduasoy. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Childhood] Reference
I also mentioned before: And my dear sir, in a fine laced silk waistcoat, of blue paduasoy, and his coat a pearl-coloured fine cloth, with gold buttons and button-holes, and lined with white silk; and he looked charmingly indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
Mahala Green had already arrived, for she was dressmaker as well as tailoress, and was sponging and pressing over the black paduasoy that had once been dove-coloured and was Hannah's sole piece of wedding finery, handed down from her grandmother's wardrobe at that. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
Brussels-lace cap, with sky-blue ribbon, pale crimson-coloured paduasoy, with cuffs embroidered in a running pattern of violets and their leaves; but we are more disposed to cry (if many novels have not exhausted all our powers of weeping) when we come to the final scene. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
How well soever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters, yet I found them still secretly attached to all their former finery; they still loved laces, ribands, bugles, and catgut; my wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut; my wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
The pageant of the Middle Ages, when hose were hose and covered the whole leg, and jagged sleeves hung down beside them; Elizabeth's ladies with their rigid busks and farthingales; Georgian beauties in flowered paduasoy; the high breasts and flowing draperies of the Regency; and, best of all, the "little milliner," without whose aid, it seems, no scion of the Victorian aristocracy could sow his first wild oats. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Can’t I go into the study this instant and fire two shots with my papa’s pistols through this paduasoy skirt, — and should I be killed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
We can afford no better, and she is well born, and since I bought her the purple paduasoy and the new lappets she has looked well enough to serve. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Quality] Reference
"But, mark my words, Patricia, there will be something wrong with my paduasoy petticoat, or Charette will not have sent the proper tale of green stockings or Holland smocks. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia] Reference
“pou-desoie” (paduasoy), a white pique waistcoat, dazzling shirt-front, a blue-bottle coat, violet silk gloves, gold buckles to his shoes and his breeches, and, lastly, a touch of powder and a little queue tied with black ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [A Start in Life] Reference
Kensington Gardens, and George and the two ladies walked together to Lord Castlewood’s door in Kensington Square, Lady Maria uttering a thousand compliments to Theo upon her good looks, upon her virtue, upon her future happiness, upon her papa and mamma, upon her destined husband, upon her paduasoy cloak and dear little feet and shoe-buckles. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
There are gossamery tears and silky oceans -- the first time, to be sure, that any body ever cried cobwebs, or that the sea was made of paduasoy. (. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
"He always came arrayed in fine linen, a cornflower blue coat, a paduasoy waistcoat, black trousers, and black ribbon bows on the double soled shoes that creaked like an abbe's; he always held a fourteen franc silk hat in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Man of Business] Reference
Your only wearing is your paduasoy. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
My black paduasoy can be fixed up, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
I was dressed in the suit I mentioned, of white flowered with silver, and a rich head-dress, and the diamond necklace, ear-rings, etc. I also mentioned before: And my dear sir, in a fine laced silk waistcoat, of blue paduasoy, and his coat a pearl-coloured fine cloth, with gold buttons and button-holes, and lined with white silk; and he looked charmingly indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
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