"Cardinal," a loose cloak after the fashion of a cardinal's "trollopée," a loose flowing gown open in the front, worn as a morning dress.—Fairholt. "Slammerkin," a sort of loose dress. This ugly word, in course of time, was used as an adjective, to signify untidy. Fortunately it is now obsolete.
"Don't read history to me, for that I know to be false," said Sir R. Walpole to his son Horace, when he offered to read to him in his last illness.
Lady M. W. Montagu. "Letter to Lord Harvey on the King's Birthday."
"The working apron, too, from France,
With all its trim appurtenance."
—"Mundus Muliebris."