1882, Augustin Challamel, The History of Fashion in France: Or, The Dress of Women from the Gallo-Roman Period to the Present Time, page 120:
According to Ménage , Anne of Austria introduced the fashion of garcettes , ” which took the place of the padded wigs . The hair was frequently dressed “ en tire - bouchons , ” or corkscrew - fashion , and in loops , with a “ culbute ...
1939, Louis Napolitan, Six Thousand Years of Hair Styling
With the ascension of Anne to the throne , the first bobbed hair of modern times made its appearance , for the Queen banished wigs , then cut her hair and wore it curled . Sometimes these " garcettes ” or curls took the form of loops ...
1951, James Laver, Costume of the Western World: Early Bourbon
High on the head was a round chignon called a somersault ; on the forehead , which was adorned with short , straight hair with a fringe in the middle , were the garcettes ; one falling down each side of the face were thick , frizzed ...
1961, Jacques Brosse, Paul Chaland, Jacques Ostier, 100,000 Years of Daily Life: A Visual History
This has two rows of little crimped curls , called bouffons , and a garcette , a little fringe combed carefully to fall over her forehead . Madame is wearing her flowered taffeta underskirt with a full black gown with wide sleeves ...
1841, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, The ports, arsenals, and dockyards of France [by A.V. Kirwan]., page 166:
There are also additional punishments , which consist in the deprivation of wine , the use of the garcette , & c . These punishments are inflicted for theft , insubordination , attempts at or making disguises to facilitate escape ...
1992, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century, LSU Press (→ISBN), page 69:
The captain had him tied to the cannon and lashed with two hundred strokes of the garcette (a whip made of braided rope)—a punishment that, according to the pilot, “he deserved.” On August 6, smallpox began to break out among the blacks ...
2012, Terry Crowdy, French Warship Crews 1789–1805: From the French Revolution to Trafalgar, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 41:
At the least fault, they will seize the garcette, and by employing it with vigour, make themselves obeyed. Sanglé-Ferrière's reaction to this harangue was perhaps typical of many of his fellow novices: 'I became disenchanted and I ...
