Folty barnets
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Forty Bonnets: the nickname of Mrs Tommy Healy of Galway' (wife of the brother of Nora Barnacle's mother, whose maiden name was Annie Healy; from her great variety of hats and bonnets; was a petite woman married to a big man; they had no children) → L/R split
- time of the tall bonnets: Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais, I.166: 'Les hauts bonnets du XVe siècle, coiffure très élevée au dessus du front, étaient passés en proverbe au siècle suivant, et l'expression du temps des hauts bonnets revient souvent sous la plume de Rabelais' ('The tall bonnets of the fifteenth century, a hair-style raised high above the forehead, had passed into proverb by the next century, and the expression from the time of the tall bonnets reappears often under the quill of Rabelais') → when hoops ran high
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- barnet: (Danish) the child → barnets: (Danish) the child's
- barnet: (Cockney Rhyming Slang) hair (from Barnet Fair)
