See England.—William III.
Regnard.
Dame du palais to Queen Marie Thérèse, and afterwards first lady of honour to the Duchess of Burgundy. She died 1726.
Mercure Galant. 1683.
Again, in 1688, he says: "Les points de Malines sont fort en regne pour les manches qu'on nomme engageantes. Ou y met des points très-hauts, fort plissés, avec des pieds."
"Ladies trimmed their berthes and sleeves with lace; when the sleeves were short they were called engageantes; when long, pagodes. Upon skirts laces were worn volantes or as flounces, whence the name volant or flounce, which has come into use for all wide laces; these flouncings were draped either in tournantes or quilles, the former laid horizontally, the latter vertically upon skirts; but in either case these were stitched down on each edge of the lace, whereas flounces were fastened to dresses by the engrêlure or footing. Lace barbes and fontanges were used as head-dresses."
They appear to have been soon introduced into England, for Evelyn, in his Mundus Muliebris, 1690, says: "About her sleeves are engageants;" and the Ladies' Dictionary of nearly the same date gives: "Ængageants, double ruffles that fall over the wrist."