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Ben Jonson, in his Magnetick Lady_, speaks of "wearing the callet, the politic hood Des filles du peuple et de la campagne s'appellant çalles_, ŕ cause de la "cale" qui leur servait de coiffure.--Francisque Michel En sa tęte avoit un gros bonnet blanc, qui l'on appelle une calle_, et nous autres appelons calotte_, ou bonnette blanche de lagne, nouée ou bridée par dessous le menton.--Brantôme, Vies des Dames Illustres A beggar in his drink Could not have laid such terms upon his callet Shakespeare, Othello_, act iv.— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Hoc bene qui callet, (si quis tamen hoc bene callet,) Scribe vel invito sapientem hunc Socrate solum.— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
Jean! woman, "he cried across the chamber to his callet, and over she came to a very indifferent and dubious client.— John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Nec numeret Libycae numerum qui callet arenae.— Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
thou foolish callet, art thou confederate with this strolling vagabond, whom thou hast seen beard me in my own hall!— The Monastery
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