SC - Re: Killer cooks

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/19/00 11:22:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< Presumably there is some
 kind of jargon involved, but whose? Is this modern costuming terminology
 (which might have some defensible basis in reality, or might not), >>

The term is usually taken to mean 'court garb' at it's finest or at the very 
least clothing regularly worn by the nobility. Either way court or nobility 
type of costuming would not have been worn to butcher veal calves or any 
other animal. :-)

Ras
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