El vocabulario francés de los peinados, los guantes y los afeites en el siglo XVII

Abstract

This article analyses a series of terms and expressions employed in seventeenth century French to describe hairdressing, wigs, makeup and gloves. The information presented here comes basically from four poems published in France between 1613 and 1622. Data found in several seventeenth-century monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, as well as in Simon Barbe’s Le parfumeur françois (1693) are incorporated as well. A detailed study of all those works allows for new theories on the semantic evolution in this field of the French lexicon.