Like most woolen cloths, duroys were not notably fashionable in England or her colonies; an unsuccessful 1741 scheme aimed to bring them into fashion through royal use (Montgomery 2007: 350).

The quillons may be either straight (fig. 109) — that is, disposed at right angles — or curved (fig. 107).

She had looked at the girl as she took the karpas and when her face changed she thought it must be the bitterness.

Or evening, in her starry mantle bright, Precedes the slow majestic train of night; In that still hour the mind excursive roves, A heavenly voice the listening spirit moves.