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a round soft hat with brim, often with a cord and tassels [h3] John Knox cap: a square soft cap [h4] Bishop Andrewes cap: like [h1] but soft and with a silk tuff in lieu of button and tassel [h5] Oxford ladies' cap: a soft square cap with a flap at the back and held up with two buttons [h6] Sussex pileus: a round cylindrical cap with a covered ...
[3] [4] The sustainers of a chair being referred to as legs. Replacing an expected word with another, half rhyming (or a partly sound-alike) word, with an entirely different meaning from what one would expect (cf malapropism, Spoonerism, aphasia). [5] I'm ravished! for "I'm ravenous!" or for "I'm famished!"
Chrysostom: " Or; All who come thereto with haste take by force the kingdom of God through the faith of Christ; whence He says, from, the days of John until now, and thus He brings them in haste to His faith, and at the same time adds support to those things which had been spoken by John. For if all things were fulfilled until John, then is ...
One possible origin is the academic cap of the high Middle Ages, which was soft and square. This is also the ancestor of the modern mortarboard used today in secular universities. The biretta seems to have become more widely used as an ecclesiastical vestment after the synod of Bergamo, 1311, ordered the clergy to wear the "bireta on their ...
Peter Hathaway Capstick (1940–1996) was an American hunter and author. He was born in New Jersey and educated at the University of Virginia although he was not a graduate. Capstick walked away from a successful Wall Street career shortly before his thirtieth birthday to become a professional hunter. His hunting career began in Central and ...
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Had he sought soft raiment, he would not have dwelt in the desert, but in kings’ houses; Lo they that are clothed in soft raiment, are in kings’ houses." [ 2 ] Jerome : "This teaches that an austere life and strict preaching ought to shun kings’ courts and the palaces of the rich and luxurious."