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Definition of Whittle shawl

Whittle shawl
Whittle Whit"tle, n. [AS. hw[=i]tel, from hwit white; akin to Icel. hv[=i]till a white bed cover. See White.] (a) A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl. --C. Kingsley. (b) Same as Whittle shawl, below. Whittle shawl, a kind of fine woolen shawl, originally and especially a white one.

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- included women wearing traditional Welsh costume which included a red whittle (shawl) and Welsh hat which, from a distance, some of the French mistook to...
- found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Martha Washington possessed a shawl made with Ipswich lace which is preserved in the Mount Vernon collection;...
- folded diagonally, they both appeared face up. (3) Whittle: Large rectangular or square woollen shawls with long fringes were worn around the waist and...
- dating from 1851. A female figure, dressed in a skirt, petticoat, bodice and shawl, it is now in the Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, Yorkshire." Old ones have...
- the streets of Limehouse as I knew them, for the girls with their gaudy shawls and heads of ostrich feathers, like clouds in a wind, and the men in their...
- Amnesty International page on HCRA Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Shawl, Jeannie (June 29, 2007). "Supreme Court to hear Guantanamo Bay detainee...
- in Wales. It diversified into making plain and coloured flannels, shawls, whittles, hose and tweeds. The company expanded further in 1873 and became the...
- in Wales and diversified into making plain and coloured flannels, shawls, whittles, hose and tweeds. Later the Newtown woollen industry again went into...