mouchet

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Ripon was impressed by the trophies held in these men's houses: a great number of heads of their enemies, having nothing but the separated skin next to each head, made and tied in the fashion of a horsetail [mouchet], and also the heads of deer and boar ....

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006
The high mode now is to dress the hair enormous tall -- a good eight inches, Tibbie -- over a steel frame, powdered mighty white, and to stick a mouchet or two on the face.

Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883