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• • • • in the late 1500s a chitterling was an
      • ornate type of neck ruff
      • because its
        • frilled edge looked like the
        • folds of a slaughtered animal’s bowel.^[5]

• • • • 

        • A ruff from the early 17th century: The Regentesses of St Elizabeth Hospital, Haarlem (detail) by Verspronck

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