“That jewelled mass of millinery,
That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section vi, stanza 6
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

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“That jewelled mass of millinery,
That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull.”