Memoirs of Lady R. Russell.
"My high commode, my damask gown,
My laced shoes of Spanish leather."
—D'Urfey. The Young Maid's Portion.
No. 98. 1711.
After fifteen years' discontinuance it shot up again. Swift, on meeting the Duchess of Grafton, dining at Sir Thomas Hanmer's, thus attired, declared she "looked like a mad woman."