chin-cushion

Updated: May 29, 2025

If he did, so particular is the man, he would certainly, if left to himself, fall into a King-William's cravat, or some such antique chin-cushion, as by the pictures of that prince one sees was then the fashion. As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly elegant.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2