Philadelphia.
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Minor Notes.
_Tippet._--The origin of words signifying articles of dress would be a
curious subject for investigation. Tippet is derived by Barclay from the
Saxon _taeppet_; but I find the following passage in Captain Erskine's
Journal of his recent _Cruise in the Western Pacific_, p. 36. He is writing
of the dress of the women at the village of Feleasan, in the Samoan
Islands:
"And occasionally a garment (_tiputa_) resembling a small poncho, with
a slit for the head, hanging so as decently to conceal the bosom."
May we not trace here both the article and the name?