darning-gourd

Updated: June 13, 2025

Her feet, shod in heelless black slippers, above which puffed white stockings, rested upon a low footstool, and her widespread knees provided a generous lap for the support of her supply of socks and her implements, her needle-book' and darning-gourd and balls of cotton.

Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith - A Tar-Heel Baron