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A fontange, or frelange, is a high headdress popular during the turn of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe. Technically, fontanges are only part of the assembly, referring to the ribbon bows which support the frelange. The frelange was supported by a wire framework called a commode. A surviving example of a frelange headdress with fo...
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• (n.) A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
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(from the article `dress`) ...curls rose high on either side of the centre parting. With these full-bottomed wigs the hat, now a three-cornered tricorne, was usually carried ... ...( 1690–1710 in France and England) on the head to hold in position a topknot made of ribbon, starched linen, and lace. The complete headgear was ... ...
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Fon`tange' noun [ French, from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de
Fontanges , about 1679.] A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
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A fontange was a lady's headdress named after the Duchess of Fontange, mistress of Louis XIV of France and worn by women at the beginning of the 18th century. It was a structure of wire which bore up the hair and a lace cap to a great height.
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Often,commode (def. 4).
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