Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hood used by women in the eighteenth century, and perhaps earlier, when traveling or exposed to the weather, the use of it depending on the style of head-dress or coiffure in fashion of the time.
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Examples
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Why am I saying all of that, will I tell you that little red riding-hood was an old woman?
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This good woman had made for her a little red riding-hood; which became the girl so extremely well that everybody called her
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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The lady did so, and answering it was alright, the woman in the red riding-hood said, _Here's another little note for you, madam_; upon which she gave her a little billet, on the outside of which was written ten guineas.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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The robbery for which he was condemned was upon a woman carrying home another woman's riding-hood which she had borrowed; and he assaulting her on the highway took it from her, which was valued at 25s.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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The lady, without minding the mystery, did as he desired her, and perceiving a woman in a scarlet riding-hood walk twice or thrice by Mr. Wild's house, her curiosity prompted her to go near her.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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It being a very cold day when he made his will, he left for mourning, to every man in the parish, a great frieze coat, and to every woman a black riding-hood.
The Coverley Papers Various
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By the fire, with a dark riding-hood about her head, was Sarah Malcolm.
She Stands Accused 1935
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This has straight sleeves, that reach to their finger ends, and it laps all round them, not unlike a riding-hood.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous 1921
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[Footnote 30: Adapted from "Huckleberries," Houghton, Mifflin Co.] "Good-bye!" nodded Hannah, from the depths of the old calash which granny had given her for a riding-hood, and her rosy face sparkled under the green shadow like a blossom under a burdock leaf.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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She was of a very tall and slender make; so I begged her to put under her own riding-hood one that I had prepared for Mrs. Mills, as she was to lend hers to my lord, that in coming out he might be taken for her.
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