I did wonder if it might be a typo, but I was equally baffled as to what it could be a typo for.. I don't think there's missing text, because the sentence makes sense as a description of a dress.
The only reference I can find for nutchins is from 1958. Actually, the sentence cited above. It appears to be a part of clothing. Could be a rare dialectical term or creative coinage.
Interesting side story, the new Marriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary has just came out. Has over 300,000 words. The phrase of the year according to Marriam Webster: 6 7. No one knows what it means.
The phrase of the year according to Marriam Webster: 6 7. No one knows what it means.
As pointed out in the other thread where you brought up “6 7,” it would be more accurate to say it is intentionally without meaning or ambiguous in meaning.
The phrase of the year according to Marriam Webster: 6 7. No one knows what it means.
As pointed out in the other thread where you brought up “6 7,” it would be more accurate to say it is intentionally without meaning or ambiguous in meaning.
Just pointing out that Marriam Webster says it is the phrase of the year.
The phrase of the year according to Marriam Webster: 6 7. No one knows what it means.
As pointed out in the other thread where you brought up “6 7,” it would be more accurate to say it is intentionally without meaning or ambiguous in meaning.
Just pointing out that Marriam Webster says it is the phrase of the year.
Well, you did add to that “No one knows what it means.”
There is a gravestone in our churchyard which includes a heraldic shield. The couple whose gravestone it is both died in 1807. The left hand of the shield represents the husband's family name; the right hand represents the wife's family name.
When they died they were one of the wealthiest couples in the village. I'm basing this on window tax records etc. However "wealthiest in a small rural village" does not mean they were very wealthy. They did not, as far as I can tell, have any connections to nobility. I believe his father was a farmer, and I know that her father was a schoolmaster.
Is the heraldic shield just something decorative, or does the fact that it's on their gravestone imply something? Is this just the 1807 equivalent of one of those "family crest" keyrings you can buy in souvenir shops?
Google is giving me lots of information on the component parts of the the shield, but not the why.
I don't know if it's any help but I would think this would have been the legislation governing arms in the period: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1672/47
It looks, based on a cursory glance, that a "Gentleman" could bear arms. Whether a farmer or schoolmaster would/could be considered "gentlemen" I'm not sure.
It's just the shield, not a full coat of arms, but it does seem as though the couple should not have been using it, unless they had forebears who were entitled to bear arms. Which begs the question - did they have such forebears? The husband was born in 1725, and the wife in 1724, so this is a rabbithole which will take me back to parents / grandparents born in the C17th.
I wonder if a gravestone counts as a moveable within the terms of shall likewayes escheat to his Maiestie all the moveable Goods and Geir vpon which the saids Armes are engraven or otherwise represented?
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Interesting side story, the new Marriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary has just came out. Has over 300,000 words. The phrase of the year according to Marriam Webster: 6 7. No one knows what it means.
Just pointing out that Marriam Webster says it is the phrase of the year.
When they died they were one of the wealthiest couples in the village. I'm basing this on window tax records etc. However "wealthiest in a small rural village" does not mean they were very wealthy. They did not, as far as I can tell, have any connections to nobility. I believe his father was a farmer, and I know that her father was a schoolmaster.
Is the heraldic shield just something decorative, or does the fact that it's on their gravestone imply something? Is this just the 1807 equivalent of one of those "family crest" keyrings you can buy in souvenir shops?
Google is giving me lots of information on the component parts of the the shield, but not the why.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1672/47
It looks, based on a cursory glance, that a "Gentleman" could bear arms. Whether a farmer or schoolmaster would/could be considered "gentlemen" I'm not sure.
It's just the shield, not a full coat of arms, but it does seem as though the couple should not have been using it, unless they had forebears who were entitled to bear arms. Which begs the question - did they have such forebears? The husband was born in 1725, and the wife in 1724, so this is a rabbithole which will take me back to parents / grandparents born in the C17th.
I wonder if a gravestone counts as a moveable within the terms of shall likewayes escheat to his Maiestie all the moveable Goods and Geir vpon which the saids Armes are engraven or otherwise represented?