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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Stubbs, ‘The Kongouro from New Holland’, Wikimedia Commons, 1772. Image Jean-Étienne Liotard, ‘Lady Montagu in Turkish dress’, Wikimedia Commons, 1756. Image William Henry Brooke, ‘The anti-royal menagerie’, Wikimedia Commons, 1812. Image … Sauce in another. [...] The Infusion of a China Plant sweetened with the Pith of an Indian Cane. [...] The single Dress of a Woman of Quality is often the Product of a hundred Climates. The Muff and the Fan come together from the … From this perspective, turquerie provided new Oriental modes to express one’s social position. In particular, Turkish dresses (flowing gowns belted with ornate bands; ermine-trimmed robes; taseled turbans) and decorations (strings of …
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Spas [ Health ]
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… hairstyles, apparel or adornment, in an objectionable assimilation with the ways that white men and white women dress themselves.’ 12 Free men of colour were restricted from working in law and medicine and could no longer serve as …
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