quillings

The solemnest of solemn quillings was resolved upon.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

French picot ribbons, and quillings of the narrowest of lace.

The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

Full well I knew that in daylight all the pressed places, pieced places, washed and ironed quillings, the age and expedients of that presumptuous garment would stand revealed!

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

Two venerable dresses in the family repertory, a fawn and a brown silk, were ripped, pressed, laid upon patterns of the latest date, per underground, and trimmed with double-pinked quillings of the same materials, dispersed ingeniously in curley-cues upon the skirt and

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

The lace of which they were composed was induced by some ingenious device to form itself into aggressive quillings, the bows seemed lined with buckram, the strings neither floated nor fluttered.

A Fair Barbarian Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Spring herself, the living Bloom of charm and love, all arrayed in delicate gray sergedusoy opening upon carnation taffeta, and crowned with sheer quillings of primrose sarcenet, with a cheek that repeated these roseate tints and a glint of golden brown tresses curling softly against a nape of pearl, that the ranchmen were bewitched and dazed, and knew no more of good common-sense.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

She had left home with the family on their way to church; she was dressed in her buff silk pongee suit trimmed with golden brown bands and quillings; she had on a lovely new brown hat with tea roses in it; her gloves and boots were exquisite and many buttoned; Agatha and Florence could not think what was the matter when she turned back, up Dorset Street, saying suddenly, "I won't go, after all."

Real Folks 1865

She was aroused by the entrance of Mrs. Middleton -- Mrs. Middleton in full carriage-dress -- robe and mantle of mauve-colored moire-antique, a white lace bonnet with mauve-colored flowers, and white kid gloves finished at the wrists with mauve ribbon quillings.

Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

When she had shaken hands with her master and mistress, and spoken a good word for her fellow-servants, as she called them, the ruddy-faced girl appeared, her cheeks many shades deeper than usual, and her cap quillings standing off like the rays on a sign-post picture of the sun.

Deerbrook Harriet Martineau 1839