ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LOO MASK
Loo, from French loup, literally: wolf, from Latin lupus.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOO MASK»
Discover the use of
loo mask in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
loo mask and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The word became loo in Elizabethan England, where the loo mask was worn by
all the fashionable ladies. (At the same time another form of mask, spelled
masque, was also the rage. Masques were the courtly theatrical performances ...
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Accessories of Dress: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
In England, this same mask was known as the loo mask. During the Elizabethan
period (1558-1603), all leaders of fashion wore these little, black, velvet
accessories. Indeed, no well-bred woman would venture upon the street without
her ...
Katherine Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, 2013
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Mask Characterization: An Acting Process
When you walked backward? 9. What did you notice when you listened to objects
? When you rubbed them? Hit them? Scratched them? Tapped them? 10. What
interested you in the objects? Pick three and lOO Mask Characterization.
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The Dictionary of Fashion History
A vizard or vizard mask was a whole mask; a loo mask was a half-mask. “She's
mask'd and in her riding suit” (1611, Lord Barry, Ram-Alley). (M) Occasionally
worn by fashionable men, especially in Italy when attending masked balls or
carnival ...
Valerie Cumming, C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington, 2010
With her plain brown hair sedately dressed and the loo mask firmly in place no
one would have any idea who she was. She could dance, she could flirt, she
could laugh and pretend there wasn't a cloud of shame hanging over her head.
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The Wicked House of Rohan Collection (Mills & Boon e-Book ...
With her plain brown hair sedately dressed and the loo mask firmly in place no
one would have any idea who she was.She could dance,shecouldflirt, she could
laugh and pretend there wasn't acloud of shame hanging over her head.A
cloudof ...
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Breathless (Mills & Boon Historical) (The House of Rohan - ...
With her plain brown hair sedately dressed and the loo mask firmly in place no
one would have any idea who she was. She could dance, she could flirt, she
could laugh and pretend there wasn't a cloud of shame hanging over her head.
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Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ...
... a flat silver plate to hold between the teeth. It is the last thing." " White silk
would suit her best," cried Mrs. Ferguson, "or green, with a chin-curtain— a loo-
mask. Which would you have, sir?" "Indeed," he said quietly, "her skin is good
enough.
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A Cyclopedia Of Costume Vol. II A General History Of Costume ...
Locket 343 Lockram 343 Mitre •• 367 9 ,, Mitten 369 370 Loeben, costume of ..
Loo-mask, see Mask. 333 Mochado .. # # Lora .. .. .. 40 Modesty bit .. 370 .. Lorica
.. 9, 16 Moile, see Shoe. Lorraine, costume of Love-knot .. 201 Mokador Mola di ...
James Robinson Planche, 1819
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The Unmasking of a Lady (Mills & Boon Historical)
he asked a liveried footman, and was directed to an adjoining salon. There,
seated at one of the tables, was Lady Westcote. The hood of her lilac satin
domino was pushed back and she'd dispensed with her loo mask. Her white hair
gleamed, ...
