Unicorn's Blood

by Patricia Finney

  sugar-plate – a kind of sugar icing made with gum Arabic, which could be moulded into elaborate shapes, left to harden and then coloured (still available from sugar-craft shops)

  tercio – Spanish brigade of three thousand men

  tiring woman – ladies’ maid

  truckle-bed – small spare bed on wheels kept under a larger bed

  Tunnage and Poundage men – Customs and Excise officers

  turnshoes – simplest and cheapest kind of slipperlike shoe

  veney – sword practice with heavy sticks

  Virge of the Court – court precincts where the authority of the lord chamberlain and the clerk of the Board of Greencloth overruled that of the common law (virge – from “virgus”, rod, ie the Lord Chamberlain’s staff of office)

  Great Wardrobe – the department of state that dealt with the making and maintenance of Queen Elizabeth’s clothes, based in a large building near the Blackfriars

  Privy Wardrobe – subdepartment of the Great Wardrobe, wherever the Queen happened to be, dealing with day-to-day maintenance of her clothes

  wet suckets- sticky sweets, usually made of candied fruit

  white-lead paint – lead oxide, highly poisonous, used as foundation

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