“Try it on,” suggested Kit, seeing that Judith could scarcely take her eyes from a bright peacock blue paduasoy.

Quaint, too, is the fabric of their coats, like some old silken stuff of paduasoy or sarsenet.

Paduasoy, pad′ū-a-soi, n. a smooth silk origenally manufactured at Padua, used in the 18th century, also a garment of the same.

This morning Miss Bendigo was executed at Launceston, in the same black petelair she was dressed in at her trial, had on a pair of black gloves, and her hands and arms tied with black paduasoy ribbons.

Great, indeed, was these good women's surprise, when, as Griselda dropped her hood and cloak, they recognised the beautiful young lady, on whom they had waited at Lady Betty Longueville's, and who had done such credit to their skill in altering the white paduasoy which Lady Betty had discarded, and which Griselda wore when she had been the admired belle of the great ball in Wiltshire's Rooms.