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Downy calves

Scope note

Pads woven into the calves of stockings to exaggerate and produce manly looking calves; patented in 1788. EMAEA

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000221719

Equivalent Terms used

downy calf

Created

13yrs ago

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