What does wyre mean?
Wyre means Obsolete spelling of wire..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete spelling of wire..
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene.
A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, / That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; / And bare out like the bending of an hill, / At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; / That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, / Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres; […]
Randle Holmes says, the ladies wore "false locks set on wyres, to make them stand at a distance from the head," and accompanies the information with the figure of a lady "with a pair of locks and curls which were in great fashion in 1670."
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Wyre means Obsolete spelling of wire..
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Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene.
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