† teresan.
Obsolete.
An article of female attire in the 18th cent.: see quot. 1860.
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1770 S. Foote Lame Lover iii. 66 Throwing her Teresa aside—upon my soul she is prodigious fine.
1860 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) Therese, a light gauze kerchief worn over the ladies' head-dress about 1786.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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