Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A head-dress fashionable in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
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- noun A
curly headdress popular among aristocrats in Europe in the late 17th century and early 18th century, made of knots of ribbons.
Etymologies
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Examples
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_ A 'fontange' was a bow of ribbons, so called from the celebrated Madame de Fontanges.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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To add still more to the appearance of amplitude in dresses trimmed with lace, some dressmakers edge the skirts with a fontange of ribbon.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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With ball dresses of transparent textures, trimmed with flounces of the same, this fontange of ribbon is frequently placed at the edge of the slip worn under the dress.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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Dark, where her companion was fair, and with the glossy texture of her own somber locks showing in the individual roll which ran back into the absurd _fontange_ of false hair and falser powder, Mary
The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890
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Enormous allonge perukes and ruffles, the fontange (high headdress), hoops, and high heels, rendered the human race a caricature of itself.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
reesetee commented on the word fontange
A high-standing headdress worn by women during the 17th and 18th centuries. Derives from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, c. 1679.
April 18, 2008