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mockado
[ muh-kah-doh ]
noun
plural mockadoes.
- a fabric simulating velvet, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Sept. 10th, my dream of being naked, and my skyn all overwrowght with work like some kinde of tuft mockado, with crosses blew and red; and on my left arme, abowt the arme, in a wreath, this word I red— sine me nihil potestis facere: and another the same night of Mr. Secretary Walsingham, Mr. Candish, and myself.
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Each woman hath with her also, according to her abilitie, all her familie trimmed vp in white mockado: the better sort and wealthier women goe in litters of Cedar artificially wrought and richly dressed.
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mockado is this, to such a poor soul as I!
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