Helvet

Miss Helvet first danced alone; she had six strings and two wires, not rods, and was dressed like the conventional ballet-girl with a red bodice and a diamond necklace, and she wriggled her white muslin skirts and waved a broad green ribbon.

Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

Antiq.l. iii.] 74 Simler de Republica Helvet. cum notis Fuselin.]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206