Rigolette

It was a mild evening late in October, and Louisa sat on the porch with her pepper-and-salt shawl on and a black wool "rigolette" tied over her head. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

“It was a strange life—asleep half the day, exploring Washington the other half, and all night hovering, like a massive cherubim, in a red rigolette over the slumbering sons of man.” ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)

John hugged Louisa, pepper-and-salt shawl, black rigolette, and all, when she finished this unprecedented speech; and when he went to sleep that night in the old north chamber, the one he and Louisa had been born in, the one his father and mother had died in, it was with a little smile of hope on his lips. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

It was a strange life – asleep half the day, exploring Washington the other half, and all night hovering, like a massive cherubim, in a red rigolette, over the slumbering sons of man. ❋ Unknown (1863)

It was a strange life -- asleep half the day, exploring Washington the other half, and all night hovering, like a massive cherubim, in a red rigolette, over the slumbering sons of man. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)

Anxious to please him, she raced round the beds till she came back to the porch where he stood, and, dropping down upon the steps, she sat panting, with cheeks as rosy as the rigolette on her shoulders. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)

And there's Mary's rigolette on the bureau; the careless child! ❋ Unknown (1847)