Mutches

Word MUTCHES
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Definitions and meanings of "Mutches"

What do we mean by mutches?

A nightcap (hat worn to bed).

A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children.

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The word "mutches" in example sentences

But the visit was one of courteous deprecation, in order that the little hunter of forbidden game might personally apologise for his delinquency.] prattling to the old women in "mutches" and "short gowns," whose houses were so charmingly queer and convenient, with the fires on the hearths to warm cold little toes, and the shadowy nooks ready for hide-and-seek. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

Maa-b nawt stairz, but rowling down grassee hills is mutches funz, wen u doo it hugging sumwun u leik. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I still has a sad taht she stops owt ober there an nawt heer so mutches ❋ Unknown (2009)

July 28, 2009 at 1:03 pm fank u sew mutches darlinks ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's an ill bird that fouls its ain nest, Betty, and when a 'the auld wives are shakin' their mutches at the end o 'peat stacks and sayin', 'This'll be another o' _his_; ye might have asked yourself ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

A wheen auld wives wi 'mutches and a wheen solemn men wi' hoasts! ❋ John Buchan (1907)

But of all the congregation, none enjoyed the singing more than the dear old women who sat in the front seats near the pulpit, their quiet old faces looking so sweet and pure under their snow-white "mutches." ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)

At word of his coming the doors were filled with mutches and bald heads, keeking by the jambs to get a look. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

“Indeed, mem, ay, sae it is; for ye see the gude lad's winding sheet was ower lang, and I cut aff as muckle as made twa bonny mutches” (caps). ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

She was small and fair, and over her grey hair she wore a widow's cap which was not at all like the thick mutches of the other women, and her shawls and gowns were of a texture and form which told of better days long past. ❋ Unknown (1859)

"But my cap is not very clean, and they will all be there in their snow-white mutches." ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

The nearer we approached, the more Scotch everything appeared; in some cases I even saw my dear native 'middens afore the door:' the aspect of the houses and looks of the old women especially, with their stoups and country caps -- so very like mutches -- striped petticoats and short-gowns, brought northern climes before me vividly; and the children stared and shouted like true Scots callants. ❋ Various (1836)

Having a washin, I went down to see how the lassies were doing; but judge of my feelings, when I saw them triomphing on the top of pattons, standing upright before the boyns on chairs, rubbin the clothes to juggins between their hands, above the sapples, with their gouns and stays on, and round-cared mutches. ❋ John Galt (1809)

( "sou-backed mutches"), the girls and children of the working classes, with flowing hair, often red, and bare feet, all the little individual traits, which impress us on our first visit to a foreign country, were carefully noted down. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

In a most awful consternation, I jumped at this out to the middle of the floor, hearing the causeway all in an uproar of voices; and seeing the flichtering of the flames glancing on the houses in the opposite side of the street, all the windows of which were filled with the heads of half - naked folks, in round-eared mutches or Kilmarnocks; their mouths open, and their eyes staring with fright; while the sound of the fire-engine, rattling through the streets like thunder, seemed like the dead-cart of the plague, come to hurry away the corpses of the deceased for interment in the kirk-yard. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

In a most awful consternation, I jumped at this out to the middle of the floor, hearing the causeway all in an uproar of voices; and seeing the flichtering of the flames glancing on the houses in the opposite side of the street, all the windows of which were filled with the heads of half-naked folks, in round-eared mutches or Kilmarnocks; their mouths open, and their eyes staring with fright; while the sound of the fire-engine, rattling through the streets like thunder, seemed like the dead-cart of the plague, come to hurry away the corpses of the deceased for interment in the kirk-yard. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

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