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What was the "half-headed bedstead" left with "Curtaince & Valance of Dornix" by will by Simon Eire in Boston in 1658? Or, to give a fuller description of a similar one in the sale of furniture of the King's Arms in Boston, in 1651, "one half-headed Bedsted with Blew Pillars." I fancy they were bedsteads with moderately high headboards.
The floors of colonial houses were sometimes sanded, but were not carpeted, for a carpet in early days was not a floor covering, but the covering of a table or cupboard. In 1646 an inquiry was made into some losses on the wreck of the "Angel Gabriel." A servant took oath that Mr. Dornix, arras, cloth, calico, and broadcloth carpets are named.
Or dornick, a worsted or woollen fabric used for curtains, hangings and the like, so called from Tournai, where chiefly manufactured. cf. Shadwell's The Miser , Act i, I: 'a dornock carpet'. Also Wit and Drollery : Penelope to Ulysses: The Stools of Dornix which that you may know well Are certain stuffs Upholsterers use to sell. p. 202 Henry the Eighth.
Before Sol could adjust his program to meet this unexpected exigency, she demanded: "Well, what's the matter with Isom?" "Dead," said Sol, dropping his voice impressively. "You don't mean well, shades of mercy, Isom dead! What was it cholera-morbus?" "Killed," said Sol; "shot down with his own gun and killed as dead as a dornix." "His own gun! Well, sakes who done it?"
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