dressed up in the _fools_
fools n This is a greyish green hair-like substance which grows on dead branches of trees (especially the fir) and sometimes on rocks. My informant says that as a child he and his friends used it to make whiskers and eyebrows, very often for cloth or brown paper masks, when they "dressed up in...
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| Language: | English |
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1970
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/25074 |
| Summary: | fools n This is a greyish green hair-like substance which grows on dead branches of trees (especially the fir) and sometimes on rocks. My informant says that as a child he and his friends used it to make whiskers and eyebrows, very often for cloth or brown paper masks, when they "dressed up in the fools" at Christmas and went from house to house much as children do now at Halloween. DNE-cit JH 1/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I |
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