Note 166 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.
Reading edition
On the word mandilions, Mr. Rimbault has the following note: "Mandiglione, a jacket, a Mandilion?—Florio's New World of Words, ed. 1611. Stubbes (apud Strutt, dress and habits, vol. ii, p. 267) says that it covered the whole body down to the thighs; and Randle Holme describes it as 'a loose hanging garment, much like to our jacket or jumps, but without sleeves, only having holes to put the arms through; yet some were made with sleeves, but for no other use than to hang on the back.'"