Écorcheurs : ' Players

85.7. chaperon : ' Hood,' a common head-dress in the Middle Ages. \

85.8. souliers à la poulaine : Shoes with pointed and turned-up j toes, as they were worn in the i4th and i5th centuries. ] ' Poulaine ' is a corruption of ' Pologne ' (Poland) . \

85.9. des tirades à n'en plus finir : (And were continually firing ofî \ at one another) long wearisome speeches that seemed to hâve ^ no end. ?