10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULVILIO»
Discover the use of
pulvilio in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pulvilio and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Plays by Charles Reade: Masks and Faces, The Courier of ...
She alludes to Mr Cibber's pulvilio. SNARL: And the crustier he gets. SOAP:
Delicious! He alludes to Mr Cibber's little irritability. CIBBER: Ah, laugh at us old
fellows, young people; but I have known Loungeville entertain a fine lady in this
very ...
Charles Reade, Michael Hammet, 1986
2
A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A ...
Can there come any thing of Essences, Pulvilio's,'“ and Perfumes, more than the
Head-Ach? Take your Wife to task, ye Blockhead, and Thrum her Jacquet“ well,
she'll ne'er be good else; She's of the right Strain, I know her to a hair; and if thou
...
Robert Stanley Forsythe, 1916
3
A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the ...
purlieu pulvilio, fine scented powder, cosmetic powder. Etherege, Man of Mode,
iii. 3 (Sir Fopling) ; Pulvilio-box, a scent-box, Wycherley, Plain Dealer, ii (Manly).
Hence pulvil, to perfume with scented powder, Con- greve, Way of the World, iv.
Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew, 1914
4
A study of the plays of Thomas D'Urfey,: with a reprint of A ...
Can there come any thing of Essences, Pulvilio's,41 and Perfumes, more than the
Head-Ach? Take your Wife to task, ye Blockhead, and Thrum her Jacquet42 well,
she'll ne'er be good else; She's of the right Strain, I know her to a hair; and if ...
Robert Stanley Forsythe, Thomas D'Urfey, 1916
5
Giraldi, or, The curse of love
The Duke of Grandchester was forgotten ; even Lord Pulvilio was nowhere. "
Preston? Preston?" mused the supplanted Duke, as he read in the morning
papers the name of the new representative of the Moneysworth family. " Pulvilio,"
he ...
Frederic Henry Balfour, 1889
6
Western Reserve Studies
Can there come any thing of Essences, Pulvilio's,41 and Perfumes, more than the
Head-Ach? Take your Wife to task, ye Blockhead, and Thrum her Jacquet42 well,
she'll ne'er be good else; She's of the right Strain, I know her to a hair; and if ...
Western Reserve University, 1917
7
The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
To the great grief. . . her dear Pulvilio lost I have not been able to find the source
of this quotation, although “pulvilio” means powder (for the hair) and the term is a
name for a fop. 52. tendre tender feelings [French] 53. Those babbling ecchos ...
Their periwigs are scented with tobacco so strong— sir fopling —It overcomes
our pulvilio. Methinks I smell the coffee- house they come from. first man
Dorimant's convenient, Madam Loveit. second man 203 204 205 207 209 210 I
like the oily ...
George Etherege, John Barnard, 2014
9
Tobias Smollett: A Study in Style
... with the head of the marquis, and demolished every curl in a twinkling, while
his own skull, at the same instant, descended upon the side of his couch with
such violence, that his periwig was struck off, and the whole room filled with
pulvilio.
lucy Well, madam, now have I dressed you, and set you out with so many
ornaments, and spent upon you ounces of essence and pulvilio; and all this for
no other purpose but as people adorn and perfume a corpse for a stinking
second-hand ...
