Rebato |
brass underwire in ruff of Spanish clothing.
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Redingote |
waisted coat with large collar and revers, single or double breasted with cut-away tails.
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Reefer |
thigh-length coat, popular with seamen.
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Reticule |
woman's hand-bag.
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Revers |
the turned back edge of a coat or waist-coat, also known as facings.
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Rhinegrave |
upper stocks with loose, flowing legs. Often richly decorated, especially with ribbon bows.
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Ricinium |
square veil worn by Roman women on their heads.
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Robe Anglaise |
child's dress of the late nineteenth century.
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Robings |
flat trimmings which decorated around the collar and the bodice.
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Rochet |
small collarless coat, with sleeves that reached no further that the elbows.
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Rond |
sausage-shaped pad over which women built their hair.
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Ropa |
woman's outergarment which is open all the way down the front, with a straight collar (sixteenth and early seventeenth century).
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Rotonne |
the lower collar of a man's coat specifically the Redingote.
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Ruff |
starched collar of lawn or cambric which completely encircled the neck. Popular in the late sixteenth century.
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Ruffle |
a strip of fabric pleated to a straight edge as a frill.
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