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A Glossary of
Sixteenth Century Italian Words Relating to Costume
A Partial
Transcript of John Florio's 1598 edition
of his Worlde of Wordes - an Italian/English Dictionary
Webbed December 12, 2004
The words included in this partial transcript are all related in
some way to the topics of male and female dress,
accessories, cosmetics, beauty, jewellery, hair and headwear,
textiles, and the sewing and embellishing of garments.
The Italian words are listed as they appear in the original, but
I have modernised the spelling of the English definitions, where
a modern spelling exists. This is mostly to make it easier to
find a particular word, since period English spelling could be
very different and varying. In some cases the word has been left
as it appeared in 1598. I highly recommend The
Renaissance Tailor's Tailoring Vocabulary page for any sixteenth century English
words which may be unfamiliar. The definitions for most of those
words can be found there.
Some entries
have been shortened by the omission of definitions that are not
specifically relevant to these topics. Grammar and punctuation
used is Florio's. Text in brackets is my own. Since I have had to
practically decipher the text, both due to lack of legibility,
and of course spelling, this ultimately means that I may have
made mistakes (the letters u and v, and f and s, were especially
problematic). I do not profess to be a linguist, nor conversant
with the Italian language. My sole purpose has been to provide a
practical and useful glossary of period Italian terms which, I
hope, will be of help to those of us out there attempting
research into period costume, and related topics, with only a
rudimentary, or nonexistent, knowledge of Italian. I hope it is
also of use to those who would wish to learn and use the correct
period Italian terms instead of English, be it sixteenth century
or modern. If you know of any mistakes that I have made please do
let me know. This is a work in progress (I will be adding to it
from the 1611 edition in time), and despite the fact that it so
far it has taken me over a year of work (on and off), I'm happy
for it to be so.
As of 12
December, 2004, there are 1,475 Glossary entries taken from all
462 pages of the dictionary. I have also created two shorter,
more specific, glossaries -
A Glossary of Fabrics in
Sixteenth Century Italian
A Glossary of Colours in
Sixteenth Century Italian
I am greatly indebted to Greg
Lindahl and his SCA Dance page.
Greg hosts both the 1598 version, and the 1611 "much
augmented", version of the dictionary here.
How to
cite this Glossary:
Wake, Anabella:
A Glossary of Sixteenth Century Italian Words Relating to
Costume, (transcribed from Florio's Worlde of Wordes, 1598) 2004,
<http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/florio.htm>
How to
use this Glossary
If you have the
Italian word and wish to find the English definition, just click
on the relevant letter of the alphabet, below, or scroll down the
page. If you want to find the English word, use your computer's
"Find" function. (Click on Edit -> Find (on this
page), or use the Ctrl+F keys) The definitions are in UK
English, so look for "gray" instead of
"grey", "colour" instead of color, etc. Also
please note that in the sixteenth century "stuff" was
often used to denote a textile, so if you wish to find fabric
names, search with the word "stuff", as well as
"cloth". Should you wish to find the original
dictionary entry, the number of the page where it can be found is
listed with each glossary entry.
A B C D E F G H I L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Worlde of Wordes
or
Most
copious and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, collected
by John Florio
1598
| Abbellire |
-to
beautify, to make fair, to deck, to adorn |
p1 |
| Abbellisco |
as above |
p1 |
| Abbellito |
as above |
p1 |
| Abellimento |
-an
adorning, a beautifying, an embellishing. Also a painting
that women use. |
p1 |
| Abbigilare |
-to
attire, to apparel, to array, to clothe, to adorn, to set
forth or make ready. |
p1 |
| Abbigliamenti |
-attire,
ornaments, clothes, apparel, furniture |
p1 |
| Abborrare |
-to stuff,
to quilt, to prepare, to make ready. |
p1 |
| Accia |
-any yarn
that is to be woven, spinning, crewel |
p4 |
| Accimare |
-to shear
clothes. Also to trim, to dress, to prank up, to girdle |
p4 |
| Accioccare |
-also to
tuft, to be-tassel or reduce into locks. |
p4 |
| Acciucche |
-trifles,
toys, vanities |
p4 |
| Accollanare |
-to adorn
with chains of gold |
p4 |
| Accosciare |
-to sit or
cower as women and tailors do |
p5 |
| Aco/Ago |
- a needle |
p6/11 |
| Aco a pomo |
-a pin
with a head |
p6 |
| Aco da
pomolo |
-a pin |
p6 |
| Acqua
nanfa |
-sweet
washing water |
p6 |
| Acqua rosa |
-rosewater |
p6 |
| Addobbare |
-to adorn,
to set forth, to attire, to enrobe, to dress, to
accoutre, to array |
p7 |
| Addobbamento |
-an
enrobing, an adorning or costly raiment |
p7 |
| Adornare |
-to adorn,
to beautify, to deck, to trim, to embellish |
p8 |
| Adornamento |
-ornament,
beauty, trimming, trappings, embellishment, garnishment |
p8 |
| Adornezza |
as above |
p8 |
| Aduolo |
-mourning.
Vestito aduolo - clad in mourning attire. |
p8 |
| Affaldare |
-to fold
up, to wrinkle, to pucker, to pleat |
p8 |
| Affuselare |
-to
stretch upon a frame as painters do canvas to paint upon |
p8 |
| Agguindilare |
-to wind
or reel yarn or silk |
p10 |
| Agimina |
-a kind of
tapestry work so called |
p10 |
| Aginina |
-a kind of
woven or net-work that women use to wear over tinsel or
cloth of gold or silver, to make it show the better |
p11 |
| Ago a pomo |
-a pin
with a head |
p11 |
| Ago da
pomolo |
as above |
p11 |
| Ago da
pomella |
as above |
p11 |
| Agonzi |
-a kind of
broad sleeves like a master of arts' gown |
p11 |
| Agora |
-sewing
needles |
p11 |
| Agucchia |
-a needle.
Also knit with needles. |
p11 |
| Agucchia
da pomella |
-a pin
with a head |
p11 |
| Aggucchiare |
-to thread
a needle, to pin with pins, to make sharp as a needle.
Also to knit with knitting needles |
p11 |
| Agucchiarvolo |
-a needle
or pin maker |
p11 |
| Ala |
-...a wing
of a doublet, the brim of a hat, a flap of anything. A
measure which we call an ell |
p12 |
| Alamoderna |
-after the
late or new fashion |
p12 |
| Alantico |
-after the
old fashion |
p12 |
| Allaciare |
-to tie
up, to bind, to knit, to entangle, to lace |
p13 |
| Allacciamenti |
-lacings, tyings, trappings |
p13 |
| Allumare |
-...also
to alum silks or clothes before they can be dyed into any
light colour |
p14 |
| Alosso |
-an herb
which dyers use called madder |
p14 |
| Altabasso |
-a kind of
wrought velvet with high and low work |
p15 |
| Ambra |
-amber
such as they make beads with. Also ambergris |
p16 |
| Ambre |
as above |
p16 |
| Ambro |
as above |
p16 |
| Ambracane |
-ambergris |
p16 |
| Ambracani |
-pomanders
made of ambergris |
p16 |
| Ambragialla |
-yellow,
or stone amber |
p16 |
| Ametistino |
-an
amethyst. Also an azure or violet colour that painters
use |
p16 |
| Ammantare |
-to cloak,
to en-mantle, to enrobe, to deck, to cover |
p17 |
| Anellaro |
-a ring
maker |
p19 |
| Anelliere |
as above |
p19 |
| Anello |
-any kind
of ring or rings |
p19 |
| Anella |
as above |
p19 |
| Anello da
bolla |
-a seal
ring |
p19 |
| Aneletti |
- little
rings |
p19 |
| Anelli |
-links or
rings of chains |
p19 |
| Anero |
-with
black or mourning weeds |
p19 |
| Annebbiatino |
-effeminate,
sweet smelling, finely arrayed, wantonly dressed up, smug |
p20 |
| Annellare |
-to curl,
to frizz or reduce into rings |
p20 |
| Annella |
-rings |
p20 |
| Annellati
crini |
-curled or
frizzed hair |
p20 |
| Annello |
-any kind
of ring |
p20 |
| Appulcrare |
-to
beautify or make fair |
p24 |
| Arabascio |
- a
soldier's coat, cassock, jacket or mandillion |
p24 |
| Arazzarie |
- tapestry
or arras works |
p24 |
| Arcolare |
-to reel
or wind silk or yarn upon a reel |
p24 |
| Argentata |
-lip-salve.
Also a painting for women's faces |
p25 |
| Argentino |
-silvery,
or a silver colour, like silver |
p25 |
| Arinella |
-a
wrinkle, a pleat, a pucker |
p26 |
| Arinellare |
-to
wrinkle, to pucker, to plait |
p26 |
| Armaio |
-a
cupboard, a press, a wardrobe, an ambrie (?), a shelf, an
armarie (armoire?) |
p26 |
| Armaro |
as above |
p26 |
| Armilla |
-a
bracelet about one's arms, a wristband |
p26 |
| Aromatoio |
-a
perfumer, one that sells perfumes or spices, an
apothecary |
p27 |
| Aspare |
-to reel,
to wind or make silk into skeins |
p29 |
| Asteratico |
-a kind of
sky colour. Also a stone or earth so called. |
p31 |
| Attillante |
-gallant,
fine, neat, spruce, handsome in clothes |
p32 |
| Attrecciare |
-to plait
or make up in tresses, to plait flowers as in a garland |
p33 |
| Avezzamento |
-a custom,
a fashion, a use |
p34 |
| Aurelio |
-shining
like gold, yellow, golden |
p34 |
| Aureo |
-golden,
of a golden hue |
p35 |
| Auricone |
-of a
golden or sunshine coloured hair |
p35 |
| Azurigno |
-somewhat blue-ish or azure |
p35 |
| Azurro |
-azure,
blue, watchet, sky-colour |
p35 |
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| Baco |
-a silk
worm |
p36 |
| Bacho |
as above |
p36 |
| Bagnare |
-to wet,
to wash, to bathe, to moisten |
p36 |
| Bagno |
-a bath,
or bathing-house |
p36 |
| Bagordare |
-to mask,
to mum, to revel |
p36 |
| Bagordi |
-maskings, mummings, revellings |
p36 |
| Bagordiere |
-a masker,
mummer, or reveller |
p36 |
| Balza |
-a hill, a
mountain, a rock, a cliff. Also a certain head attire for
women. |
p37 |
| Balzo |
-the bound
of a ball, a skip, a hop. Also a certain head attire. |
p37 |
| Bambagna |
-bombast |
p37 |
| Bambace |
as above |
p37 |
| Bambagina |
-a woman's
long waistcoat. Also bombasine. |
p37 |
| Bandare |
-to garde
(guard) with laces or guards. |
p38 |
| Baronzi |
-...also
apparel or clothes, rags, clouts, tatters. |
p39 |
| Barraldare |
-to teasel
clothes |
p39 |
| Basto |
-...also a
doublet or jerkin in rogues language. |
p40 |
| Batalo |
-a kind of
miniver hood that Doctors are wont to wear in sign of
honour. |
p40 |
| Battilana |
-a
wool-winder or dresser of wool. |
p40 |
| Bauaro |
-a bib or muckender. Also a hood or a rail, a friar's cowl, a
beaver. Also a cape about the neck of any garment. |
p40 |
| Bauero |
as above.
Also a kind of stuff made of raw silk, as curled or raw
cypress. |
p40 |
| Bauccare |
-to mask
or muffle. |
p40 |
| Bauceo |
-a woman's
mask or muffler |
p40 |
| Bauella |
-a kind of
ravelled silk or sleave silk. Also satin of Briges.All
manner of raw silk. |
p40 |
| Bauellero |
-a picker
of silk |
p40 |
| Belletare |
-to paint,
to beautify, to make fair. Also to deceive. |
p41 |
| Belletto |
-painting
that women use for their faces. Also a deceit. |
p41 |
| Bellezza |
-beauty,
fairness, comeliness. |
p41 |
| Bella/Bello |
-fair,
beautiful, well-favoured, handsome, goodly, comely,
pretty. |
p41 |
| Bellore |
as
Bellezza |
p41 |
| Belta |
as above |
p41 |
| Beltade |
as above |
p41 |
| Beltramo |
-fair,
handsome, goodly. |
p41 |
| Beltro |
-a mixed
colour of green, white and red |
p41 |
| Benda |
- a scarf,
a veil, a swathe, a filet, a hair-lace. Also a
hose-garter. |
p41 |
| Bendare |
-to
en-scarf, to swathe, to hoodwink, to blindfold |
p41 |
| Bendella |
-a filet,
a riband, a tape, a little scarf, a bandell (?), a swathe
a rowler (roller?). |
p41 |
| Beretta |
-a cap or
bonnet |
p42 |
| Berettano |
-a capper,
a cap-maker |
p42 |
| Berettina |
-a little
cap or bonnet |
p42 |
| Berettore |
-a great
cap or bonnet, a cap of maintenance as the Mayor of
London carries before him. |
p42 |
| Barli |
-little
bushes, locks or tufts of hairs |
p42 |
| Bernasso |
-a cloak
with a hood as shepherds wear, a thrummed hat |
p42 |
| Bernia |
-an Irish
rug, or mantle, a rug such as women wear. |
p42 |
| Berretta |
-a cap or
bonnet |
p42 |
| Betta |
-a beauty |
p43 |
| Beuccatoio |
-a
workman's apron or bib. |
p43 |
| Biacca |
-a kind of
white lead called cerise |
p43 |
| Biaccare |
-to white,
to daube, to paint with ceruse |
p43 |
| Biancare |
-to white,
to whiten, to blanche |
p43 |
| Biancaria |
-all
manner of napery or white linen |
p43 |
| Bianchetta |
-a
blanket. Also something white |
p43 |
| Bianco |
-white,
blank, pale, wan |
p43 |
| Biavo |
-a bright
pale yellow colour |
p43 |
| Bigio |
-gray or
russet colour. Also homespun cloth or sheep's russet. |
p43 |
| Bigiuccia |
-a kind of
gray or clay colour |
p44 |
| Biltà |
as
Bellezza |
p44 |
| Bionda |
-a kind of
lye to wash and make women's hair yellow |
p44 |
| Biondeggiante |
-shining
yellow, or of the colour of gold |
p44 |
| Biondella |
-the herb 'centorie' so called, because washing one's head with it,
it makes the hair yellow. Also a golden-locked person, as
we say a goldilocks |
p44 |
| Biondezza |
-yellowness
of hair |
p44 |
| Birsa |
-the 'cheverill' skin to make purses with |
p44 |
| Bissino |
-a kind of
fine silken stuff called bisse |
p44 |
| Bisso |
as above |
p44 |
| Boccalino |
-properly
such stuff as we call Buckram. Also such stuff as we call Callimanco. Also a single garment for a woman. Some have
used it for fine calico or lawn |
p45 |
| Bombagia |
-all
manner of bombast, or cotton wool |
p46 |
| Bombagiare |
-a kind of
stuff called bombasine made of cotton wool |
p46 |
| Bonetto |
-a bonnet
or cap |
p46 |
| Bordare |
-to border
about, to embroider. |
p46 |
| Bordo |
-a kind of
silk stuff woven |
p46 |
| Borra |
-any
stuffing for saddles, or other quilting or bombasting |
p46 |
| Borratto |
-a
'bolting' cloth, a sieve...a kind of stuff called Burato |
p47 |
| Borrico |
-a kind of
quilted waistcoat. Also a frock. |
p47 |
| Borrire |
...also to
fill or stuff |
p47 |
| Borsa |
-a purse,
a little bag |
p47 |
| Borsetta |
-a little
pouch, a little purse |
p47 |
| Borsella |
as above |
p47 |
| Borsia |
-a purse,
a satchel, a little bag |
p47 |
| Borsone |
-a pouch,
a banking bag, a great purse |
p47 |
| Borza |
as Borsa |
p47 |
| Borzachini |
-buskins,
fine boots |
p47 |
| Bosima |
-a kind of
yeast or gum that weavers use to stiffen linen cloth with |
p47 |
| Bosimare |
-to
stiffen linen cloth as weavers do |
p47 |
| Bassetto |
-a
shoe-makers round piece of wood to sew his shoes upon |
p47 |
| Bottini |
-buskins
or thin boots |
p47 |
| Bottoncini |
-little
buttons... |
p47 |
| Bottone |
-a
button... |
p47 |
| Bottonetto |
-a little
button |
p47 |
| Bottoniera |
-a
buttonhole or loop hole |
p47 |
| Braca |
-a breech
or a slop |
p48 |
| Bracato |
-breeched,
having hosen on |
p48 |
| Braccia |
an arm,
arms. Also a yard or an ell |
p48 |
| Braccialetti |
-bracelets,
or wristbands |
p48 |
| Brache |
-all
manner of breeches, slops, hosen, venetians |
p48 |
| Brachetta |
-a
codpiece |
p48 |
| Brachietto |
as above` |
p48 |
| Bragoni |
-great
breeches, slops, or hosen |
p48 |
| Broccame |
-all
manner of clothes (cloths?) of tissue, gold, or silver |
p49 |
| Broccaglio |
-a bodkin,
or pouncing iron |
p49 |
| Brocatello |
-thin
tinsel, or slight cloth of gold or silver |
p49 |
| Broccato |
-cloth of
gold or silver. Also cloth of bodkin, or tissue |
p49 |
| Brocco |
-a kind of
red or yellowish colour |
p49 |
| Bucati |
-clean,
new-washed clothes |
p50 |
| Bucherame |
-buckram
or calico cloth |
p50 |
| Burattino |
-a kind of
stuff called Burato |
p51 |
| Burino |
-a kind of
carving, cutting, or jagging in garments |
p51 |
| Busto |
-a trunk,
a body without a head, a truss. Also a woman's busk. |
p52 |
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| Cabarino |
-a
gaberdine, a frock, an Irish rug, a shepherd's cloak or
cassock |
p52 |
| Cacciamosche |
-a fan to
put away flies |
p52 |
| Cadanelle |
-little
chains, chain-lace or chain stitch |
p53 |
| Caffettáno |
-a
cassock, a gaberdine, a cloak or such like garment |
p53 |
| Calamistro |
-an iron
that women use to curl and frizz their hair with, a
crisping wire |
p53 |
| Calandrelli |
-wooden
shoes, wooden pattens |
p53 |
| Calce |
...also
hosen, breeches, slops, stockings |
p53/4 |
| Calcette |
-hosen, or
nether stockings, or shinners (?) |
p54 |
| Calcetti |
-linen
socks |
p54 |
| Calcia |
-any kind
of hose |
p54 |
| Calciamento |
-any kind
of hosing or shoeing |
p54 |
| Calcie |
-hosen.
Also taken for shoes |
p54 |
| Calcioni/Calzoni |
-great
breeches, hosen, slops. Also boot-hosen |
p54 |
| Calzati |
-either
hosen or shoes |
p55 |
| Calze |
-hosen or
shoes |
p55 |
| Cambrai |
-cambric
cloth, named after the town where much is made of it |
p55 |
| Camelotto |
-the stuff
we call chamblet |
p55 |
| Camicia |
as
Camiscia |
p55 |
| Camiciótto |
as
Camiscione |
p55 |
| Camiciuola |
as
Camisciuola |
p55 |
| Camiscia |
-a shirt,
a smock, a priest's surplice, a porter's frock, a long
white garment |
p55 |
| Camiscione |
-a
porter's frock, a body coat or great shirt |
p55 |
| Camisciúola |
-a little
shirt or waistcoat |
p55 |
| Camorra |
-an Irish
rug. Also an upper cassock |
p55 |
| Camorro |
...also a
woman's coat |
p55 |
| Camurra |
as Camorra |
p55 |
| Canapázzo |
-coarse
hempen canvas. Also hempen .... or sackcloth |
p56 |
| Cánape |
-hemp |
p56 |
| Canapétto |
-a little
hempen rope |
p56 |
| Canevaccio |
-sackcloth
or canvas |
p56 |
| Canevo |
-hemp |
p56 |
| Cangiante |
-changeable,
as we say Taffeta of diverse colours |
p56 |
| Cannevaccio |
-canvas or
sackcloth |
p57 |
| Canovo |
-hemp |
p57 |
| Capeletto |
-a
chaplet, a little hat, a hawk's hood |
p58 |
| Capelli |
-the hair
of a man or woman. Also hats |
p58 |
| Capei |
as above |
p58 |
| Capelli
ricci |
-curled,
frizzed, or crisped hair |
p58 |
| Capelli
crespic |
as above |
p58 |
| Capelli
inannellati |
as above |
p58 |
| Capellina |
...also a
little hat that women use to wear in their houses in
Italy. |
p58 |
| Capello |
-a hat, a
hood |
p58 |
| Capigliare |
-to dress,
to tress, to plait, to curl, to frizz, to lace, to tie up
hair |
p58 |
| Capigliata |
-the
fore-lock of a man's or woman's head. Also hairy |
p58 |
| Capitone |
-a kind of
coarse silk called sleave silk |
p58 |
| Cappa |
-a cape, a
cape-cloak, a Spanish cloak. Also a kind of veil that
women wear about their heads in Italy. Also a cope for a
priest. |
p59 |
| Cappe |
-cloaks,
Spanish cloaks, or capes |
p59 |
| Cápperone |
-a hood,
frock or garment for the rain. Also a French hood |
p59 |
| Capperuccia |
-a poor
silly cloak or such gaberdine |
p59 |
| Cappotto |
-a short
Dutch cloak, a Spanish cape cloak, a hood or a cowl |
p59 |
| Cappuccio |
-a hood or
a cowl |
p59 |
| Carcassóne |
-a kind of
coarse stuff so called, whereof sailors make frocks. Also
a sailor's frock |
p60 |
| Caréllo |
-a square
cushion made of diverse pieces as tailors and beggars use
to sit upon |
p61 |
| Carnadino |
-carnation
colour |
p61 |
| Casacca |
-a
cassock, a frock, a horse-man's coat, a long coat. |
p62 |
| Casacchino |
-a jerkin,
a mandillion |
p60 |
| Castagnato |
-chestnut
colour |
p63 |
| Cavardina |
-an upper frock, a
gabardine |
p64 |
| Causia |
-a broad
cap or hat that harvest folk use to keep them from the
sun. Also a kind of hat that the kings of Macedon were
wont to wear. |
p65 |
| Celéste |
-heavenly,
celestial. Also sky-colour, or azure and watchet |
p65 |
| Celestro |
-azure, watchet, or sky-colour |
p65 |
| Celoni |
-coarse
hangings, or rugged clothes |
p65 |
| Céncio |
-a rag, a
clout, a tatter |
p66 |
| Cenericcio |
-ash
colour, or one that lies in the chimney-corner |
p66 |
| Cenerino |
as above |
p66 |
| Cerita |
-a girdle |
p66 |
| Centone |
...also a
coarse coverlet made of shreds and lists. Also a quilted
jack or jacket |
p66 |
| Centura |
-a girdle |
p66 |
| Centurino |
-a little
girdle, a waistband |
p66 |
| Centurola |
-a little
girdle or garter. Also a horn book for children to learn
reading hanging at their girdle |
p66 |
| Certéglio |
-a
circlet, coronet, wreath, chaplet or garland about the
head, a necklace, an earring. Also a hoop-ring or carcanet, or billiment, or border that women wear upon
their heads. |
p67 |
| Cerchio |
-a hoop, a
circle, a chaplet, a garland |
p67 |
| Cerino |
-a kind of
colour like yellow wax |
p67 |
| Cerigno |
as above |
p67 |
| Cernicchio |
-a picker
or culler or divider of anything, but properly a bodkin,
which women use to pin their hair on their heads with, a
crisping wire. |
p67 |
| Ceruato |
-of the
colour of a flag, a speckled dun or russet |
p67 |
| Ceruetto |
-chamois
or buckskin |
p67 |
| Ceruléo |
-sky
colour, azure or watchet |
p67 |
| Cesóie |
-a pair of
shears or scissors |
p67 |
| Cestella |
-a
seamsters work-basket, a little basket |
p67 |
| Chente |
...also a
kind of fine linen cloth |
p68 |
| Chiaroscuro |
-a kind of
dark puke (puce?) colour |
p69 |
| Chiega |
-the
lining of a garment |
p69 |
| Chiovaa |
-tenters
for to dry and stretch clothes upon |
p70 |
| Chioviale |
-a
sleeveless garment |
p70 |
| Ciabatta |
-an old
overworn shoe |
p70 |
| Ciamarra |
-a habit
or garment worn over a gown as graduates wear in
universities |
p70 |
| Ciambelotto |
-chamblet |
p70 |
| Ciameloto |
as above |
p70 |
| Cianco |
-a kind of
bright blue or azure colour |
p71 |
| Ciarpa |
-a scarf |
p71 |
| Cilestro |
-azure,
blue, sky-colour or watchet. Also a kind of lily so
called. |
p72 |
| Cilindro |
-a long
pearl fashioned like an egg |
p72 |
| Cimossa |
-the
selvedge or list of any cloth. |
p72 |
| Cingolo |
-a girdle
or a garter, an engirdling |
p72 |
| Cinta |
-girt,
girded or compassed about. Also a belt, waistband, or
girdle. |
p73 |
| Cintola |
-a girdle,
a belt, or waistband. Also a garter |
p73 |
| Cintolini |
-garters,
or little girdles |
p73 |
| Cintura |
-a girdle,
a belt, a waistband |
p73 |
| Cioppa |
-a
shepherd's cap, a Scottish cap, a knit cap, a frock, a
safeguard. |
p73 |
| Cirossa |
-ceruse,
or white lead that women use for painting |
p73 |
| Citrino |
-a pale
yellow lemon colour |
p74 |
| Claretto |
-a claret
colour |
p74 |
| Coccinéo |
-dyed in
grain, scarlet or crimson, of a scarlet colour |
p75 |
| Coccino |
-a scarlet
robe or vesture |
p75 |
| Colare |
-to glue
together...also a band, collar or carcanet. Also a cape
for a cloak or any collar |
p76 |
| Colarino |
-a little
band or collar. Also a gorget piece |
p76 |
| Collana |
-a chain
about one's neck |
p76 |
| Collanella |
-a little
chain |
p76 |
| Collare |
...Also a
collar, a band about one's neck, a gorget, a neckercher,
a carcenet |
p76 |
| Collarino |
-a gorget
of plate, a little band. Also a little collar |
p76 |
| Colletto |
-a leather
jerkin |
p76 |
| Colombino |
-dove
colour, columbine colour |
p77 |
| Colorare |
-to dye or
to colour |
p77 |
| Colorire |
as above |
p77 |
| Colore |
-a colour,
a hue |
p77 |
| Contigiare |
-to adorn,
to trim |
p84 |
| Contigie |
leather
hose, such as our elders were wont to wear. Also
trimming, deckings, ornaments, garnishings. |
p84 |
| Contrapelo |
-against
the hair |
p84 |
| Contrapunto |
-counterpointed.
Also a back-stitch in sewing. |
p84 |
| Copercero |
-a kind of
upper frock, or such garment |
p85 |
| Copritesta |
-a cap or
hat, or any cover for the head |
p86 |
| Coracino |
-a little
heart, a bright raven or crow-black colour. |
p86 |
| Corallino |
-coral
colour, a little coral |
p86 |
| Corame |
-leather
tanned or dressed |
p86 |
| Cordicélla |
-a little
cord, a string, a line, a tape, a lace, a riband, an
inkle, a binding, a twine or a fillet |
p86 |
| Cordóne |
-a great
cord, a hatband |
p86 |
| Cossinetto |
-a little
cushion, or cushionet, a seamsters cushion, a post (?)
pillow. Also a little pillow or bolster for anything, a
stuffing or bombasting. |
p86 |
| Costuma/Costume |
-custom,, fashion, use,
guise, wont, habit, use |
p89 |
| Costura |
-a seam or
sewing of any garment |
p89 |
| Costure |
-comeliness,
handsomeness. Also seams. |
p89 |
| Cotigie |
-leather
hosen, or trusses such as our elders were wont to wear |
p90 |
| Cotonare |
-to
cotton, to bombast, to thrum, or set a nap upon |
p90 |
| Cotone |
-cotton,
bombast, a nap or a thrum |
p90 |
| Cotta |
-any kind
of coat or upper garment |
p90 |
| Cottone |
as Cotone |
p90 |
| Cremesi |
-crimson,
scarlet |
p91 |
| Cremesino |
as above |
p91 |
| Crespa |
-a
curling, a frizzing, a crisping, a wrinkling. Also
curled, frizzed, crisped or wrinkled |
p91 |
| Crespare |
-to curl,
to frizz, to crisp, to wrinkle, to plait, to wither, to
pucker |
p91 |
| Crespatura |
-a
curling, a crisping, a crisping, a wrimpling (wrinkling?)
a plaiting |
p91 |
| Crespo |
-wrinkled,
withered, frizzed, curled, puckered, crisped |
p91 |
| Crinale |
-a hair
lace. Also a crisping wire or bodkin that women use about
their hair |
p91 |
| Crocéo |
-a saffron
colour |
p92 |
| Crocoton |
-a kind of
garment of the colour of saffron |
p92 |
| Cruna |
-the eye
of a needle |
p93 |
| Cubitale |
-a
fore-sleeve for the arm no longer than the elbow. Also a
cushion for one's elbow |
p93 |
| Cucire |
-to sew
with a needle |
p93 |
| Cucio |
as above |
p93 |
| Cucito |
as above |
p93 |
| Cucurice |
-a she-seamster or sewer |
p93 |
| Cucitúra |
-a seam or
sewing |
p93 |
| Cuffia |
-a coif, a
caul, a biggin, a night-cap |
p93 |
| Cuffione |
-a coif, a
caul, a biggin or woman's head night attire |
p93 |
| Cushotto |
as above |
p93 |
| Cuscitrice |
-a woman
seamster |
p94 |
| Cuscitura |
-a seam or
sewing |
p94 |
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| Dalmatia |
-a
priest's surplice, or such religious garment. Some take
it for a shepherd's long frock |
p95 |
| Damasco |
-the stuff
called Damask |
p95 |
| Da rivolto |
-turning
down as a falling band, or a woman's rabato |
p96 |
| Davantino |
-a woman's
apron, or half-kirtle |
p96 |
| Dedále |
-a
thimble, a finger stall |
p97 |
| Detale |
as above |
p99 |
| Detaretto |
-a little
thimble, or finger stall |
p99 |
| Dietro
punto |
-a
back-stitch in seamstrie work |
p101 |
| Dimito |
-a kind of
coarse cotton or flannel |
p103 |
| Dirosa |
-of a
rose, acqua rosa, rosewater |
p104 |
| Discarlatto |
-of
purple, of or with scarlet |
p105 |
| Doaggio |
-a kind of
coarse garment, or shepherds cloth |
p111 |
| Dobetta |
-a kind of
silken stuff worn in doublets |
p111 |
| Dobretto |
-a kind of
white garment, like a mandillion |
p111 |
| Dobletto |
as above |
p111 |
| Doccio |
-a kind of
water pot that barbers use to let water trill upon men's
heads to wash it with |
p111 |
| Domaschino |
-damask
work |
p111 |
| Dosso |
-...also a
kind of coarse home-spun cloth. Also a beast bearing a
rich fur. |
p113 |
| Drapperia |
-a drapery
or street where cloth is sold |
p113 |
| Drapetto |
- a little
cloth, narrow cloth |
p113 |
| Drappi |
-all
manner of clothes, vestures, apparel, vestments or attire |
p113 |
| Drappiére |
-a draper,
a seller of cloth, a clothier |
p113 |
| Drappiéro |
as above |
p113 |
| Drappo |
-any kind
of cloth |
p113 |
| Drappo
alto |
-broad
cloth |
p113 |
| Drappo
basso |
-narrow
cloth |
p113 |
| Drappo di
lino |
-linen
cloth |
p113 |
| Drappo
d'oro |
-cloth of
gold or tissue |
p113 |
| Drappo di
seta |
-all
manner of woven silk |
p113 |
| Duaggio |
-a kind of
coarse home-spun clothing |
p114 |
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| Essornare |
-to deck,
to trim, to garnish, to dress |
p122 |
| Essornatione |
-a
decking, a trimming, a garnishing |
p122 |
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| Falda |
-a fold, a
plate, a wrinkle, a gathering, the skirts of the coat |
p124 |
| Faldare |
-to fold,
to pleat, to en-tress, to wrinkle, to cockle, to gather,
to curl, to en-trail |
p124 |
| Faldarello |
-a little
pretty dog, a playing dog, a puppy sitting upon a woman's
coats |
p124 |
| Faldéa |
-a kind of
open or loose garment which the noble women of Venice
were wont to wear |
p124 |
| Falde |
...also plaitings, wrinkles, folds, gatherings,
curlings, plaits.
Also locks or handfuls of wool or flax. Also a folding,
an enwinding or a plaiting of a garment. |
p124 |
| Faldiglie |
as above.
Also a frock or gathered garment |
p124 |
| Faldonie |
As Falde |
p124 |
| Fare a
gucchia |
-to knit
as silk hosen be with needles |
p125 |
| Farseto |
-a truss
or thin doublet for summer, a little jacket |
p126 |
| Farsetto |
as above |
p126 |
| Fasce |
-bundles,
swathes, widths, fardels, guardings, borders, laces,
rolls, or bindings about a garment |
p126 |
| Fascia |
-the
singular of Fasce |
p126 |
| Fasciare |
-to
swathe, to swaddle, to bundle or bind about, to sheaf up,
to roll or tie up. Also to bind, to guard or lace, or
border a garment about |
p126 |
| Fatto a
gucchia |
-knit with
knitting needles as silk hosen be |
p126 |
| Fazzoletto |
-a
handkerchief, a muckerer, a towel, a barber's cloth, a
wiper |
p126 |
| Feltraro |
-a felt
maker |
p128 |
| Feltro |
-a felt,
whereof hats are made or riding cloaks and bases. Also a
hat itself or a cloak made of felt. |
p128 |
| Felzata |
-a kind of
coarse woollen stuff so called like felt |
p128 |
| Feminelle |
-the
little clasps and hooks that women use to tie their
petticoats with |
p128 |
| Feralvolo |
-a riding
cloak |
p128 |
| Ferarvolo |
as above |
p128 |
| Ferigno |
-cruel,
fierce, of the colour or nature of iron... |
p129 |
| Fermagliare |
-to adorn
with jewels, ouches or brooches, or pendants |
p129 |
| Fermaglio |
-an ouch,
or jewel, a pendant, namely a brooch |
p129 |
| Fernanbucco |
-brazil
wood to dye with because it comes from such a place in
Brazil |
p129 |
| Ferretti |
-little
irons. Also tags for points. |
p129 |
| Ferruginéo |
-of an
iron colour |
p129 |
| Festichina
seta |
-a kind of
raw sleave silk |
p129 |
| Festone |
-a
garland, a wreath, a chaplet, a crown of flowers |
p130 |
| Festoncello |
-a little
garland or wreath, or chaplet, or coronet of flowers |
p130 |
| Fettuccie |
-jags, jaggings, cuttings, or snips in garments |
p130 |
| Fiamma di
volto |
-a blush,
or maiden's blush colour |
p130 |
| Fiamméo |
-a flame
colour |
p130 |
| Fibbia |
-any kind
of buckle, a latch, a clasp or hasp, or latchet |
p130 |
| Fibbiare |
-to
buckle, to lace, to tie, to join or fasten together |
p130 |
| Fibbiatura |
-a
buckling, a lacing |
p130 |
| Figurato
veluto |
-figured
velvet, wrought or branched velvet |
p131 |
| Filaccio |
coarse
thread, or yarn to be woven. Also coarse raw silk |
p131 |
| Filare |
-to
spin...to twist or draw into threads |
p131 |
| Filatare |
as above |
p131 |
| Filato |
-spun or
twisted...also any kind of yarn that is spun, or
spinning, made in manner of a thread |
p131 |
| Filatoio |
-a silk
mill. Also a spinning wheel |
p131 |
| Filatoia |
-a
spinner, a woman spinner |
p131 |
| Filatrice |
as above |
p131 |
| Filatore |
-a spinner |
p131 |
| Filiscello |
-a kind of
coarse silk which we call fillosetta or flouret silk |
p132 |
| Filza |
-a file, a
thread full of pearls, of beads....a chain of pearls |
p132 |
| Filzare |
-to
en-thread or put upon a thread, as beads, bugle or pearl |
p132 |
| Fimbria |
-the hem
or skirt, a fringe, a welt, a guard, a border or an edge
of any garment. Also a friar's girdle |
p132 |
| Fiocco |
-a tassel,
a button, a lock or bush of hair, a flake, a flock or
tuft of wool |
p132 |
| Fioroni |
-garlands
or chaplets made of flowers. Also great branches in
damask |
p133 |
| Flamméo |
-a flame
colour |
p133 |
| Flavio |
-a bright
shining straw yellow |
p133 |
| Flavo |
as above |
p133 |
| Fódera |
-a lining,
a scabbard, a sheath |
p134 |
| Foderare |
-to line a
garment |
p134 |
| Forbici |
-scissors,
shears, tailors shears |
p135 |
| Forbicini |
-little
pretty scissors or shears |
p135 |
| Forfici |
-shears,
scissors, tailors shears |
p135 |
| Forficette |
-little
scissors or shears |
p135 |
| Forficini |
as above |
p135 |
| Frappe |
-fringes, embroiderings, guardings, lacings. Also cuttings or jags,
or snips of garments |
p137 |
| Frastagli |
-cuts,
jags, snips |
p138 |
| Fratesco |
-friar-ish,
friar-like. Also a gray or ash colour |
p138 |
| Fregiare |
-to
fringe, to guard, to lace, to adorn or garnish anything,
to border |
p138 |
| Fregiato |
-fringed,
bordered, guarded, laced, adorned |
p138 |
| Fregiataméte |
-finely, adornedly, as with lace, fringes or other guarding for
ornaments |
p138 |
| Fregio |
-a fringe,
a guard, a lace, a border, a welt, embroidery, ornament
or garnish about any garment |
p138 |
| Frenello |
...also
little crisps of hair for women's heads, or headbands |
p138 |
| Fresone |
-coarse
frieze rug or home spun cloth |
p139 |
| Fripperia |
-the place
where old clothes sellers dwell, a frippery |
p139 |
| Frisa |
-the stuff
called frieze |
p139 |
| Frisada |
-a kind of
stuff called frizado |
p139 |
| Frifare |
-to
frieze, to cotton, to set a nap |
p139 |
| Frisella |
-very fine
frieze or nappie (napped?) cloth which we call peni-stone
or cotton. |
p139 |
| Frisetta |
as above |
p139 |
| Frisone |
....also a
rough hairy garment...also a coarse, thick frieze. Also
the stuff we call rug |
p139 |
| Frontale |
-a
forehead piece, or headband...a square as women ear on
their heads, a frontlet |
p139 |
| Fronzale |
-a kind of
frounzing (?) or ornament about a woman's head or hair |
p140 |
| Fulvo |
-the
colour of gold, or bright yellow |
p140 |
| Fustagno |
-the stuff
we call fustian |
p141 |
| Fustagnere |
-a kind of
thin fustian |
p142 |
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| Gabano |
-a
fisherman's or shepherd's cloak or gaberdine |
p142 |
| Gabbano |
as above |
p142 |
| Gabbanello |
-a
gaberdine or shepherd's coat, or cloak |
p142 |
| Gaggliossa |
-a pocket,
a pouch, a budget |
p142 |
| Gala |
.....also
a kind of fantastical diverse coloured clothing or
apparel |
p142 |
| Gale |
-fashions,
liveries, suits or devices in clothes. Also the plural
for Gala |
p142 |
| Galluzze |
....also
hollow beads of gold or silver for bracelets |
p143 |
| Gamorra |
-a woman's
garment or gown |
p143 |
| Gamurra |
as above |
p143 |
| Garabattulo |
-a cloak,
a frock, a gaberdine, or upper homely garment |
p143 |
| Gafiare |
-to work
in purl work or stitch work |
p144 |
| Gafio |
-a kind of
purl or stitch work |
p144 |
| Gavardino |
-a frock,
a gaberdine, a shepherd's garment |
p144 |
| Gemma |
-a gem, a
jewel, or precious stone |
p145 |
| Gemmare |
-to en-gem
or deck with precious stones |
p145 |
| Gheroni |
-the
skirts or quarters of a coat, or jerkin, the gores or
gussets of a smock or shirt, the side pieces of a cloak |
p147 |
| Ghimphe |
-ruff
bands as men and women wear |
p147 |
| Ghirlanda |
-a
garland, a chaplet, a circlet, a coronet of flowers or of
anything else, a coronet, a wreath, a border |
p148 |
| Ghirlandella |
-a little
garland, wreath, chaplet, coronet or circlet |
p148 |
| Ghirlandetta |
as above |
p148 |
| Giancchetta |
-a little
jacket |
p148 |
| Giallare |
-to dye or
make yellow |
p148 |
| Giallastro |
-yellowish,
somewhat yellow |
p148 |
| Gialliccio |
as above |
p148 |
| Giallo |
-the
colour yellow |
p148 |
| Gioggiolino |
-a kind of
colour which we call flesh-colour, or brick colour |
p149 |
| Giornéa |
-a certain
garment made long like a gown or horseman's coat |
p149 |
| Gippatura |
-as Giubba. Also a kind of work that tailors use upon
doublets |
p150 |
| Giranda |
-a garland
or chaplet of flowers |
p150 |
| Girasole |
....also
changeable taffeta |
p150 |
| Giro |
...a
circle, a compass, a fan, a circlet.... |
p150 |
| Giuba |
-an upper
cassock, a mandillion, a soldier's or horseman's coat, or
jacket |
p150 |
| Giubba |
as above |
p150 |
| Giubarello |
-a little
horseman's coat, a mandillion, a truss, a sleeveless
doublet |
p150 |
| Giubbarello |
as above |
p150 |
| Giubone |
-a doublet |
p150 |
| Giubbone |
as above |
p150 |
| Giubetto |
-the
perfume called civet |
p150 |
| Giuponaro |
-a doublet
maker |
p151 |
| Guipponaro,
Guibbonaro |
as above |
p151 |
| Glasto |
-a stuff
to dye blue with, called woad |
p151 |
| Gonna |
-a woman's
upper gown, robe, or mantle |
p153 |
| Gonnélla |
-a little
gown, a safeguard, a petticoat, a straight gown |
p153 |
| Gonnellaro |
-a woman's
robe maker |
p153 |
| Gonnellino |
-a little
gown, robe, safeguard or petticoat, a jacket, a cassock,
a gaberdine |
p153 |
| Gorgiéra |
-a gorget,
a partlet, a neckercher, a rail about one's neck, a
collar or harness |
p153 |
| Gorgietta |
-a little
gorget, also a partlet |
p153 |
| Goro |
-a kind of
wine or the colour thereof |
p153 |
| Gottonare |
-to cotton
or set a nap on, to frieze |
p153 |
| Gottonatto |
-a kind of
cotton, frizado, penestone, or buffin serg | |
