linsey-wolsey

But the bride of the pioneer was clothed in linsey-wolsey, with hose of woollen yarn; and moccasins of deer-skin -- or as an extra piece of finery, high-quartered shoes of calf-skin -- preceded satin slippers.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

What myriads of young faces have grown old over worsted parrots and linsey-wolsey maps of the terrestrial globe!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Had on when she went away, a blue linsey-wolsey gown, a dark brown petticoat, and a Bath bonnet.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

PASS: Had with him a beaver hat, light grey linsey-wolsey jacket, two trowsers, new pumps, and an old purple coloured waist coat.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

Let Henry the Fifth have his Agincourt; let him, in history, sit upon a throne of Frenchmen's skulls; our LAZARUS THE FIRST shall heal the wounds of wretchedness -- shall gather bloodless laurels in the hospital and workhouse -- his ermine and purple shall make fellowship with rags of linsey-wolsey -- he shall be a king enthroned and worshipped in the hearts of the indigent!

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

I done got down on my knees an 'prayed for God ter send me linsey-wolsey clothes so I won't have rheumatiz an' aint none come.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

"The trail of the serpent is over us all," the golden calf has become our supreme god, and even in the South it now matters much whether a woman seeking justice be clothed in gowns of Worth or linsey-wolsey.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

A reversible crimson and black striped linsey-wolsey under a white cambric skirt, with five, seven, or nine tucks of handsome work, not less than ten or twelve inches deep.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

To go to field-labor in seven petticoats can be anything but convenient or agreeable, but it is the traditionally correct thing, and a German peasant girl would think herself as unfavorably conspicuous in an untraditional costume as an English servant-girl would now think herself in a “linsey-wolsey” apron or a thick muslin cap.

The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849

She usually wore a thick linsey-wolsey gown, with enormous pockets on either side, and, like Nora Creina's, it certainly inflicted no undue restrictions upon her charms, but left

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839