Those M&D words 2

[bekah]

At 3:00 PM +0200 11/19/06, Ya Sam wrote:
>What's 'volish'?
>
>"They have come upon a Queue forming up a dark street, and decide to 
>join it, Dixon in his red coat, boots with three-inch heels, and 
>mysteriously cockaded hat, Mason, after an hour before his 
>traveler's Mirror, having assum'd rather a darken'd, volish 
>neutrality."
>
>It doesn't seem to be an adjective derived from 'vole' (a small 
>rodent resembling a mouse), as 'mouse-like neutrality' doesn't make 
>much sense.


I think that you've got it though.   Volish is like a vole or mouse 
and mouse-brown hair is very neutral.   We're not talking politics 
here,  we're talking a mousy physical appearance.    It makes sense 
to me.

Mouse brown is the color hair every woman's was before she did 
something about it.
It's a dull, medium-light brown color,  totally uninteresting

Bekah
with silver threads among the mouse brown