frounced

Updated: May 3, 2025

"Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks. Here's a song goes of Martin Swart, too, an I had but memory for it: 'Martin Swart and his men, Saddle them, saddle them, Martin Swart and his men; Saddle them well."

Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth