Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British 1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. 2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.

Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral 1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.

Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!

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Posts tagged 1850s

  1. The Avatars of Vishnu

    1. Matsyu, the fish
    2. Kurma, the turtle
    3. Varaha, the boar
    4. Narasimha, the half-man, half-lion
    5. Vamana, the dwarf
    6. Parashurama, the sage, “Rama with an axe”
    7. Rama, Sri Ramachandra, the prince and king of Ayodhya
    8. Krishna, the “dark colored”
    9. Buddha, the founder of Buddhism
    10. Kalki, the timeless, the eternal, the destroyer of foulness

    The Faiths of the World. James Gardner, 1856.
    Mahabhrata. Published ca. 1890. Ancient Hindu Epic.

    (Source: openlibrary.org)

  2. Political borders in Africa, ca. 1855. Mitchell’s School Atlas: Comprising the maps and tables designed to accompany Mitchell’s School and Family Geography. 1857.

    Political borders in Africa, ca. 1855.

    Mitchell’s School Atlas: Comprising the maps and tables designed to accompany Mitchell’s School and Family Geography. 1857.

  3. turnofthecentury:  Anonymous - Girl and Dog Seated on Chair, c.1855

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     Anonymous - Girl and Dog Seated on Chair, c.1855

  4. La Syphilide Syphilis: Poeme en Quatre Chants, par Barthelemy.1851.

    La Syphilide

    Syphilis: Poeme en Quatre Chants, par Barthelemy.1851.

  5. biomedicalephemera: John James Audubon, 1785-1851. This was the last portrait of Audubon created, in 1850. Dude’s got a wicked case of the olds going on, mostly because he was said to have a serious distaste for false teeth, and given what they had back then, can you blame him? They weren’t wooden (that would be ridiculous - even Washington never had wooden teeth), but people who could afford them had metal or ivory teeth, with extremely uncomfortable fittings, for the most part. The Auk. Vol IX, 1894.

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    John James Audubon, 1785-1851.

    This was the last portrait of Audubon created, in 1850. Dude’s got a wicked case of the olds going on, mostly because he was said to have a serious distaste for false teeth, and given what they had back then, can you blame him? They weren’t wooden (that would be ridiculous - even Washington never had wooden teeth), but people who could afford them had metal or ivory teeth, with extremely uncomfortable fittings, for the most part.

    The Auk. Vol IX, 1894.

  6. Mme. Demorest’s Spiral Spring Bosom Pads [They] do not fail to secure the entire approbation of those who require some artificial expansion to give rotundity to the form… …sent by mail, securely done up, post-free, on receipt of price. No measures required. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly. April 1855.

    Mme. Demorest’s Spiral Spring Bosom Pads

    [They] do not fail to secure the entire approbation of those who require some artificial expansion to give rotundity to the form…

    …sent by mail, securely done up, post-free, on receipt of price. No measures required.

    Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly. April 1855.

  7. heracliteanfire: Hawk Perched on Gauntlet of a Falconer. Ambrotype, British, 1855. (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

    heracliteanfire:

    Hawk Perched on Gauntlet of a Falconer. Ambrotype, British, 1855. (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

  8. Fulani Woman From Esquisses Sénégalaises; physionomie du pays, peuplades, commerce, religions, passé et avenir, récits et legendes. Abbe David Boilat, 1853.

    Fulani Woman

    From Esquisses Sénégalaises; physionomie du pays, peuplades, commerce, religions, passé et avenir, récits et legendes. Abbe David Boilat, 1853.

  9. oldrags: Dress, ca 1855

    oldrags:

    Dress, ca 1855

    (via fuckyeahvictorians)

  10. Babies in wigs! Well, Archduke Ferdinand and Archduchess Maria Carolina in wigs. Mid-1700s pastel of two of the children of Maria Theresa, the last of the House of Hapsburg - Archduke Ferdinand (Later Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany) and Archduchess Maria Carolina. Maria Theresa was also the mother of Marie Antoinette. Die Mode: Menschen und Moden im achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Dr. Oskar Fischel and Max von Boehn, 1858.

    Babies in wigs!

    Well, Archduke Ferdinand and Archduchess Maria Carolina in wigs.

    Mid-1700s pastel of two of the children of Maria Theresa, the last of the House of Hapsburg - Archduke Ferdinand (Later Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany) and Archduchess Maria Carolina. Maria Theresa was also the mother of Marie Antoinette.

    Die Mode: Menschen und Moden im achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Dr. Oskar Fischel and Max von Boehn, 1858.

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