and certain lames of the pauldrons and tasses. The armour was generally more or less lined throughout, and in the place of the gambesons, acketons, etc., of the earlier Middle Ages, we have the arming-doublet […]

I couldn't bear to let you go yet So I threw caution to the wind And started listening to my longing heart And then you softly pressed your lips to mine And feelings surfaced I'd suppressed For such a long time.

It was equally the entry point for rare commodities – oriental spices, gold and ‘porcelain’ shells.

Liz Sommer (2018-08-14), “kek + top kek”, in STAYHIPP, retrieved 2019-05-25