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  • The women attire themselves in jackets and gowns, petticoats and aprons of woollen frieze; over which is thrown a "hempa," or wide black robe, like a Jesuit frock, trimmed with velvet binding.

    The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

  • The women attire themselves in jackets and gowns, petticoats and aprons of woollen frieze; over which is thrown a “hempa,” or wide black robe, like a Jesuit frock, trimmed with velvet binding.

    The Story of Ida Pfeiffer Anonymous 1879

  • Action chemosterilants - thiourea hempa haemolymph protein house-fly

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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