subs. (common).—1. A KISS-CURL (q.v.).
2. (popular).—The name of a very small, once fashionable bonnet.
1855. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), Nature and Human Nature, p. 131. She holds out with each hand a portion of her silk dress, as if she was walking a minuet, and it discloses a snow white petticoat. Her step is short and mincing, and she wears a new bonnet called a KISS-ME-QUICK.
1885. BARING-GOULD, Court Royal, ii. Or this Dolly Varden with panniers, a little passed in style, and a KISS-ME-QUICK bonnet.
3. (American).—See quot.
1871. DE VERE, Americanisms, p. 215. But of all the rare compounds known to Eastern bar-rooms, few ever reach his secluded home. Nor would he appreciate the bewitching softness of ‘Long Linked Sweetness,’ or the ecstacy produced by a ‘KISS ME QUICK’—he likes to take it strong and hot.
