head-edgingn.
Misreading by Thackeray of ‘Head, and Edging’ (see quot. 1731 at head n.1 5b for correct reading); speculatively defined by N.E.D. (1898) as ‘an ornamental edging to a head-dress’.
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1860 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii, in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 188 (app. quoting Gentleman's Mag.) Her Majesty..wore a flowered muslin head-edging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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