lucco

Tuscan "lucco," or long flowing gown, had at least the advantage of concealing from the public eye much that the Apollo costume had injudiciously exhibited.

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

S. John on a rock stands like a pillar in the centre, the hearers are dressed in the "lucco" (a

Fra Bartolommeo Leader Scott 1869

The Florentine citizens at this time still wore their ancient civil dress of the long gown and hood called lucco.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

The Florentine citizens at this time still wore their ancient civil dress of the long gown and hood called lucco.

XVI 1909

S. John on a rock stands like a pillar in the centre, the hearers are dressed in the “lucco” (a Florentine cloak of the 15th century), the grouping following the lines of the landscape.

Fra Bartolommeo Scott, Leader, 1837-1902 1881

It was a scene such as Florentines loved, from the potent and reverend signor going to council in his lucco, down to the grinning youngster, who felt himself master of all situations when his bag was filled with smooth stones from the convenient dry bed of the torrent.

Romola George Eliot 1849

The Spirit is clothed in his habit as he lived: the folds of his well-lined black silk garment or _lucco_ hang in grave unbroken lines from neck to ankle; his plain cloth cap, with its _becchetto_, or long hanging strip of drapery, to serve as a scarf in case of need, surmounts

Romola George Eliot 1849

At this moment the door opened, and there entered, unannounced, a tall elderly man in a handsome black silk lucco, who, unwinding his becchetto from his neck and taking off his cap, disclosed a head as white as

Romola George Eliot 1849

Romola could discern the odious figure of Dolfo Spini, indued in the grave black lucco, as one of the Eight.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Soon the door opened, and Bernardo del Nero entered, still carrying his white head erect above his silk lucco.

Romola George Eliot 1849