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" Their apparel was rich, but too light and courtezan-like for such great ones. Instead of vizzards, their faces and arms up to the elbows were painted black ; which was disguise sufficient, for they were hard to be known ; but it became them nothing so... "
The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw ... - Page 103
by Popular encyclopedia - 1877
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The Elizabethan Stage, Volume 3

Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1923 - 544 pages
...Bevil. Their apparell was rich, but too light and curtizanlike for such great ones. Instead of vizzards, their faces, and arms up to the elbows, were painted...and white, and you cannot imagine a more ugly sight, then a troop of lean-cheek'd Moors. The Spanish and Venetian ambassadors were both present, and sate...
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