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Thread #3602   Message #3650655
Posted By: Rumncoke
13-Aug-14 - 08:54 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Barring of the Door
Subject: RE: Origins: Barring of the Door
my hand is in my hissy skip - wonderful - but it is more likely
my head (or hair) is in my hussif's cap (hussif - housewife).

No woman would go to the door wearing either apron or with her hair tucked up in cap or scarf if she had aspirations to being thought a lady of leisure.