riding-mask

“Why, I thought you had never seen the wench but once, and then she had her riding-mask on; I am sure you told me so.”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

She wore a black silk riding-mask, which was then a common fashion, as well for preserving the complexion from the sun and rain, as from an idea of decorum, which did not permit a lady to appear barefaced while engaged in a boisterous sport, and attended by a promiscuous company.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

A skirt, or upper-petticoat of camlet, like those worn by country ladies of moderate rank when on horseback, with such a riding-mask as they frequently use on journeys to preserve their eyes and complexion from the sun and dust, and sometimes, it is suspected, to enable then to play off a little coquetry.

Redgauntlet 2008

Peniston put on her linen riding-mask, and in a moment was seated behind me.

Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

Then Darthea slyly put on her riding-mask, and we went in.

Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks.

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

She wore a black silk riding-mask, which was then a common fashion, as well for preserving the complexion from the sun and rain, as from an idea of decorum, which did not permit a lady to appear barefaced while engaged in a boisterous sport, and attended by a promiscuous company.

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

"Why, I thought you had never seen the wench but once, and then she had her riding-mask on; I am sure you told me so."

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

-- A skirt, or upper-petticoat of camlet, like those worn by country ladies of moderate rank when on horseback, with such a riding-mask as they frequently use on journeys to preserve their eyes and complexion from the sun and dust, and sometimes, it is suspected, to enable then to play off a little coquetry.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801