gessoon

Updated: June 12, 2025

The captain, by his successful voyages, had been able to save a sufficient sum to live in comfort, with a handmaiden, Biddy O'Halloran, to attend on him and his daughter, and a gessoon to look after the cows and pigs and to work in the garden.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley