tippet-strings

Updated: June 7, 2025

Rossitur thought so, for, again tenderly kissing her before she left the room, she told Hugh to take off her things and make her feel at home. Hugh upon this made Fleda sit down, and proceeded to untie her tippet-strings and take off her coat, with an air of delicate tenderness which showed he had great pleasure in his task, and which made Fleda take a good deal of pleasure in it too.

Susan Warner - Queechy, Volume I