close-setting

Updated: April 30, 2025

A smiling, dark-eyed woman in a close-setting white cap went on with the joke and pointed to her basket, but the old gentleman had had enough: he hurried away with a rueful glance at the basket in which, divided only by the handle, sat two fat turkey poults and two chickens.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873