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Definition of Fontange

Fontange
Fontange Fon`tange", n. [F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, about 1679.] A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. --Addison.

Meaning of Fontange from wikipedia

- A fontange, or frelange, is a high headdress po****r during the turn of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe. Technically, fontanges are only...
- Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Duchess of Fontanges (French pronunciation: [maʁi ɑ̃ʒelik də skɔʁaj] ; July 1661 – 28 June 1681) was a French noblewoman...
- called the fontange, worn in the home, was po****rised. Made of linen and given height by an internal wire frame called a commode, the fontange featured...
- Fontanges (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tɑ̃ʒ]; Occitan: Fontanjas) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. The small river Aspre,...
- women, two of them wearing kokoshniks Sarafan Ryasna Ochipok, Ukrainian Fontange Fengguan, Chinese French hood Barbette Hennin Gable hood Liangbatou, Chinese...
- Pompadour. In 1680, King Louis XIV loved the way his mistress the Duchess of Fontanges arranged her hair after she fell from her horse. She started wearing it...
- Fortanerius V****alli (died October 1361) was an Italian Franciscan who became Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, and a cardinal a few w****s...
- stacked high over the forehead. This hairstyle was often topped with a fontange, a frilly cap of lace wired to stand in vertical tiers with streamers to...
- the wedding 24 livres, and a hairstyle for the following days 6 livres. Fontange - a tall headdress/hairstyle in fashion before poufs Beehive (hairstyle)...
- 1696 she married Bernard de Prez, Baron de La Queue. by Angélique de Fontanges (1661 – 28 June 1681) Son January 1680 January 1680 (stillborn) Daughter...