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History has unfortunately immortalized Lady Duff-Gordon as the cold, imperious woman who, with her husband, Sir Cosmo, commandeered a lifeboat to themselves during the sinking of the Titanic, completely ignoring her position in history as one of the first couturiers and an indomitable, albeit flawe [...]

2009 July | Edwardian Promenade 2009

But that when I applyed my sences to consider, and addressed my eyes with diligent obseruation, curiouslie to ouerlooke euerie perticular part of this sweete composed obiect, and most rare and goodly imagerie and virgin like bodyes, without cracke or flawe, with a long drawne breath, and somewhat opening my mouth, I set a deepe sighe.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

* Chesapeake Bay. distant from Roanoak about 130. miles, the passage to it was very shallow and most dangerous, by reason of the bredth of the sound, and the little succour that upon any flawe was there to be had.

Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

To the Northward our furthest discouery was to the Chesepians (90) distant from Roanoak about 130. miles, the passage to it was very shallow and most dangerous, by reason of the bredth of the sound, and the little succour that vpon any flawe was there to be had.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

And by meanes of a sudden flawe were dryuen, and faine to seeke harborough in the night amongst all the rockes and broken ground of

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Flimska is “mockery” in Old Norse and flim, “a lampoon”; an attempt to fool the monarch in 1538 was described in England’s State Papers as “a flim flawe to stoppe the ymagination of the Kynge.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Flimska is “mockery” in Old Norse and flim, “a lampoon”; an attempt to fool the monarch in 1538 was described in England’s State Papers as “a flim flawe to stoppe the ymagination of the Kynge.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004