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 cap, spangled; short Greek embroidered jacket; white under-bodice; full white sleeves to elbow; round the waist a jewelled band; flowing skirt. (See, and Plate XIII., Fig. 51.)

AUDREY (As You Like It). Loose yellow woollen dress, high to throat, with long open sleeves, rope round the waist; large felt hat; hair floating about the shoulders. Sometimes she wears a rough figured woollen tunic and handkerchief of the same over low bodice, a large felt broad-brimmed hat; or sometimes a bodice and tunic made with short sleeves, the white under-dress showing in the full sleeves to wrist and the stomacher; a sort of sun-bonnet on the head.

AUGUST. (See .)

AURORA. Tulle ball-dress, lower skirt white, then one of grey-blue and one of pink, spangled with gold stars, the whole veiled in light yellow spangled tulle; veil of the same and blue velvet tiara, one star in centre, for head-dress; ornaments, gold stars. It may also be rendered in grey and pink.

AUSTRIAN PEASANT. A short dress of red or green woollen material; the bodice low square, with long white sleeves to wrist, laced in front; a kerchief beneath; or there is a white under-bodice and sleeves, and a large plaited collar. The hat is high and pointed, with flowers at the side. In Upper Austria, on fête days, the girls wear a helmet-shaped head-dress of gold gauze. Black velvet low, square, sleeveless bodice; a red and yellow handerchief tucked inside; full white puffed sleeves to elbow. Bright coloured cotton short skirt, boots, and embroidered apron. (See .)

AUTUMN. Generally a fashionable evening dress of white, brown, ruby, maize, old gold, or pale green silk, satin, or tulle, trimmed with chatelaines of purple and white grapes, vine, or red-leafed Virginia creeper, and other shaded autumn leaves; or bouquets of poppies, cornflowers, convolvulus, wheat-ears, barley, oats, hops, grasses, blackberries, apples, and other autumn fruits; beehives, bees, birds, and a sickle are other insignia; head-dress, wreath and tulle veil; ornaments of dead gold, or china flowers mounted; silk stockings to match the dress, and shoes with flowers; a basket of fruit and flowers may be carried in hand. Another rendering: a short pink silk skirt and low bodice; a panther skin fastened on one shoulder and draped on the hip; the edges of skirt and bodice