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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Bible Dictionaries
Skimmington
Webster's Dictionary
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(n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Skimmington'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/skimmington.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Skimmington'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/skimmington.html. 1828.
