gamurra

Updated: May 20, 2025

She was a stout but brawny woman, with a man's jerkin slipped over her green serge gamurra or gown, and the peaked hood of some departed mantle fastened round her sunburnt face, which, under all its coarseness and premature wrinkles, showed a half-sad, half-ludicrous maternal resemblance to the tender baby-face of the little maiden the sort of resemblance which often seems a more croaking, shudder-creating prophecy than that of the death's-head.

George Eliot - Romola