[lit-ideas] Cavalier Cuffs

-- and now to bed.  Promise!
 
1902 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 8/3 The cavalier cuff of stiffened velvet. 
 
1923 Daily Mail 1 Mar. 6 
Sleeves that end in a flounce..gowns with no sleeves at all -- Cavalier  
cuffs -- there is infinite variety.


In a message dated 2/25/2009 5:37:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Are "gentile" and "genteel" synonyms?  What  say ye?  If not, choose genteel 
in the appropriate  context.

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Where I come from it's not a synonym. It's a  euphemism -- for _uncut_!

The re-adoption first appears in the form  gentile, distinguished from 
GENTILE (= non-Jewish) by retaining the Fr.  pronunciation of the i and the 
stress 
on the last syllable. It is probable that  it was originally fashionable to 
retain the Fr. nasal sound in the first syll.;  hence the vulgar pronunciation 
represented by the spelling ‘jonteel’, which  occurs in comic literature of the 
early 19th c. The fully anglicized spelling  genteel came in at the end of 
the 17th c.; see also GENTEE, which corresponds  more nearly to the 
pronunciation of the Fr. word, in which the l is silent. 
 
The Oxford defines it as
 
"Of or pertaining to any or all of the nations other than the  Jewish."
 
Gram. 
 
1818 TODD, Gentile, belonging to a nation; as British, Irish, German,  &c., 
are gentile adjectives. 1854 R. G. LATHAM Native Races Russian Emp. 223  Lainen 
is the regular Finlandish termination for gentile nouns.

Gram. A  part of speech indicating the locality or nation to which anything 
belongs. 1612  BRINSLEY Pos. Parts (1669) 25 Q. Why are they [nostras and 
vestras] called  Gentiles? A. Because they properly betoken pertaining to some 
Countrey or  Nation: to some Sect or Faction. 1889 Century Dict. s.v., The 
words, 
Italian,  American, Athenian, are gentiles.

Urban Dictionary: roundhead  roundhead - 4 definitions - 1. A  circumcised 
penis 2. ... Uparrow Downarrow. roundhead penis cut cavalier uncut  foreskin 
circumcised ...
_www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roundhead_ 
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Cheers,
 
JL
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