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ˈriding-hood
[riding vbl. n.]
A large hood originally worn while riding, but in later use forming an article of out-door costume for women and children.
Now chiefly familiar from the tale of Little Red Riding-hood, which occurs in the English translation of C. Perrault's Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passé by R. S[amber], 1729.
1459Paston Lett. I. 477 Item, j. rydyng hode of rede felwet... Item, j. blake rydyng hoode, sengle. 1611Cotgr., Barbute, a riding hood; a Montero, or close hood, where⁓with trauellers preserue their faces and heads from frost⁓biting. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2657/4 Sarah Potter,..having a striped Gown and Petticoat, and a grey Riding-hood. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 1 Apr., It laps all round them, not unlike a riding-hood. 1732Acc. Workhouses 52 So much blue camlet..as serves for making Riding Hoods for the childrens use in wet weather. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 138 ⁋11 She soon disencumbered herself from her weeds, and put on a riding-hood, a coarse apron, and short petticoats.
b. transf. A woman. nonce-use.
1718[Gay] Journ. to Exeter 74 From hence first came th' intriguing ridinghood. |