GR translation: hair smocks

[Mike Jing]

Given the context, this seems to be more likely. I did find the exact
phrase in a 17th century English poem by Richard Lovelace, Her Muffe:

Nor could your ten white nuns so sin,
That you should thus pennance them in,
Each in her coarse hair smock of discipline.

So it's probably some kind of garment made of coarse cloth.


On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 5:33 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> It's a play on 'hair shirt' and a popular image of the Pre-Raphaelites:
>
> A self-imposed punishment or penance. The term comes from *the medieval
> practice of doing penance by wearing a shirt made of coarse haircloth (made
> from horsehair and wool)*, mentioned from the thirteenth century on in
> numerous sources, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (The Second Nun's
> Tale).
>
>
>
> http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/12/william-morris-in-smock.html
>
> Smocks became popular again in 60s/70s rural hippie culture, as did the
> 'cultivation' of pharamceuticals!
>
> cheers
> Mike
> On 10/04/2022 02:43, Mike Jing wrote:
>
> V5.20-26, P5.35-41   Bloat is one of the co-tenants of the place, a
> maisonette erected last century, not far from the Chelsea Embankment, by
> Corydon Throsp, an acquaintance of the Rossettis’ who wore hair smocks and
> liked to cultivate pharmaceutical plants up on the roof (a tradition young
> Osbie Feel has lately revived), a few of them hardy enough to survive fogs
> and frosts, but most returning, as fragments of peculiar alkaloids, to
> rooftop earth, . . .
>
> What's a "hair smock" exactly? Is it a smock you wear when you are having a
> haircut?
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