Regency Words: Looking Yellow
In the Regency, instead of being green with envy, the colour depicting jealousy was yellow! If you were said to look yellow, you were said Continue
In the Regency, instead of being green with envy, the colour depicting jealousy was yellow! If you were said to look yellow, you were said Continue
A reader was looking for some Regency slang meaning robbed: Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823) The above are two examples you will Continue
Moniker/Name Valerie Source of Question Research Your Question If a Regency man (say, Charles Bingley) wanted to say something is smashing, terrific, etc., what would Continue
Just re-read Heyer’s _Cotillion_ and twice it uses the idiom “eel-backed”–can’t find that anywhere, does anyone have a notion what is meant? Thanks for the Continue