It is used in Walpole's New British Traveller. 1784.

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Haliwell gives compas as "a circle; Anglo-Norman."

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Partlet, a small ruff or neck-band.

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"Eidem pro 4 pec' de opera Rhet' bon' florat' in forma oper' sciss' ad 24s., £4 16s."—G. W. A. Eliz., 43 to 44.

1578-79. New Year's Gifts. Baroness Shandowes. "A vail of black network flourished with flowers of silver and a small bone-lace."—Nichols.

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Encyclopædia Britannica. Art. Costume. Sixteenth Century.