Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fringed sash worn by gentlemen in the seventeenth century.
- noun A lace cravat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A form of
fringed sash orcravat worn bygentlemen
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Examples
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Montana, and a _burdash_ ( "half-man, half-woman") by the Washington
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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Lastly came leaping upon us a burdash, in a rough mantle stuck with myrtle, girt about him; and one while almost ground our hipps to powder with his bobbing at us, and other while slobber'd us with his nasty kisses; till Quartilla, holding her staff of office in her hand, discharg'd us of the service; but not without having first taken an oath of us, that so dreadful a secret should go no further than our selves.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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