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Snowy Owl | 13:34 Sun 30th Jul 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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In the times of Elizabeth I, what type of adornment were pique devant, screw, hammercut, sugarloaf and swallowtail? I`ve found pique devant and hammercut as types of beard. Can anyone enlighten me as to whether the others are too? I`m Googled out on it at the moment! Thanks for any leads.
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I think a sugarloaf is a type of headress.
A swallowtail was a long-tailed dress coat and a sugarloaf was a type of hat . Both from Chambers Dictionary.
The swallowtail is a style of beard around 1600
try google " elizabethan beards hammercut " then Project Gutenberg. this gives you hammer cut beard popular in Charles I time, sugarloaf popular with Puritans and Swallowtail beard also Spade and Screw.
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Thanks to you all for your help. I`d been going round in google circles and obviously not typing in the right words!

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