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prettygoodwordhussif (HUH-sif) - (UK) (obs.) n., a small sewing kit.
Also called a housewife or hussy, this was often in the form of a strip of cloth with pockets, folded over into a wallet and then tied closed, but sometimes was a small bag that could be hung from a belt. In addition to domestic uses, these were also (in times and places) part of a British soldier's kit. The original form of the word is housewife. (This is also the origin of hussy in the somewhat outdated modern sense of an immoral woman.)
---L.
Also called a housewife or hussy, this was often in the form of a strip of cloth with pockets, folded over into a wallet and then tied closed, but sometimes was a small bag that could be hung from a belt. In addition to domestic uses, these were also (in times and places) part of a British soldier's kit. The original form of the word is housewife. (This is also the origin of hussy in the somewhat outdated modern sense of an immoral woman.)
---L.
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Date: 2024-09-20 07:31 pm (UTC)(And now for a hussy borne by a hussar; I had yet even to hear of Tom Brown’s Schooldays when this paperback came out, but the Frazetta cover promised 57 Varieties Of Wicked Adult Decadence that fourteen-year-old Full Metal Calf had to check out!
NSFW: https://web.archive.org/web/20160911113946if_/http://s158562511.onlinehome.us/BlogImages/Flashman_For_The_Charge.jpg)
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Date: 2024-09-20 07:59 pm (UTC)I missed that cover -- I read the later reissues. Great series.
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Date: 2024-09-21 01:42 am (UTC)