Jun. 2nd, 2009

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I had no idea that a "quilt" was once a term for a padded dressing as well as padded bedcovers, armor lining, etc. The OED gives:
Med. A pad or dressing, spread with a medicinal substance, and applied to the skin. Obs.
1583 P. BARROUGH Methode of Phisicke 32 Make a twilt with iij. sheetes of graie paper, & bast upon it cotton woll. 1601 P. HOLLAND tr. Pliny Hist. World II. XXVIII. xix. 339 The same rennet applied as a cataplasme upon a quilt of wooll [Fr. appliqué en cataplasme, sur de laine; L. in uellere adpositum]. 1626 BACON Sylva Sylvarum §56 The Quilts of Roses, Spices,..&c. are nothing so helpfull as to take a Cake of New bread. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician III. 68 Concerning Quilts and Caps..such as are made of very strong scented things do affect the Head.


So, would the quilted cap filled with lavender mentioned in Banckes' Herbal (1525) also be a quilt? what kind of cap would it be? A skull cap? a bonnet?

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