Pleureuse

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In the 15th century, a pleureuse was the name given to a shoulder cape as part of the female mourning clothing . In the 18th century and around 1800 the term was then used for black cuffs , which were also "worn during court mourning".
At the beginning of the 20th century, feather headdresses on women's hats were called this, later the term was Germanized to Plöröse and also z. B. used for feather boas .

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1. ↑ Ludmila Kybalová, Olga Herbenová, Milena Lamarová: The great image lexicon of fashion - from antiquity to the present , translated by Joachim Wachtel, Bertelsmann, 1967/1977: p. 435.