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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
Duramque callet pauperiem pati.— The Borough
Contemptuous base-born callet as she is!— Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
Mamma callet for me, ant says, 'Karl Ivanitch, I gif you my children.— Boyhood
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