jockey-saddle

Updated: May 8, 2025

Some say that it prevents the long cloth clinging to the lower limbs, others that it comes from a modest wish to conceal the forms; some make it a jockey-saddle for the baby, others a mere exaggeration of personal development, an attempt to make Aphrodite a Callipygé.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative