PLATE LVII.
A TURKISH LADY
I N ' RER WE.DjpiNCl DRE.SR ■
'T his Plat? exhibits the back pf a female on the day of her marr
riage, which eeremony pannpt' take place but the ey§; p f a Friday.
Qn her wedding-day the bride dresses herself in the »chest-clothes
sKecao promre, and psts pp.aU tbejewels an# other yahiables she
is possessed of, BotR red and white paint i$ used in considerable
■quantities, wbilethp eye-brows and eye-dids: are stained black;
They-also talce pare to place,, with great art, flowers, pearls, and
jewels., both agiong, the hair and the braids, which hang down
behind, as sbeWn-in this Plate. «
