shin-on

Updated: May 2, 2025

He was, indeed, to some extent struck by the appearance of Juliana, who, with her hair done up into what her mother called a "shin-on" a fashion much affected when she was a young woman and wearing a silk dress with flounces innumerable of the terra-cotta hue beloved, for some occult reason, of her kind, entered the room with an air of stately magnificence.

M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis - North, South and over the Sea