frizette
Britishnoun
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As I remember her, she was tall and stately, prim and precise, and was attired generally in black silk and elaborate cap and frizette, a very Lady-Prioress sort of a person.
From The Home Life of Poe by Susan Archer Weiss
Miss Lydia—her black frizette over one smiling eye, her hands encased in white cotton gloves, a new ribbon at the throat of her very old alpaca—called him "William," with the most commonplace friendliness.
From Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Miss Lydia, her frightened eyes peering at her caller from under that black frizette, could hardly speak herself.
From An Old Chester Secret by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
She got on her feet and stood looking down at little shabby Miss Lydia sitting on the step with her black frizette tumbling forward over one frightened blue eye.
From An Old Chester Secret by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
She was a little, bustling figure, rather dusty and moth-eaten, with a black frizette, always a little to one side, and eager, gentle, blue eyes.
From Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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