Associations to the word «Macfarlane»

Wiktionary

MACFARLANE, noun. A cape-coat, viz., having a shoulder cape attached at the neck. In styles for women it may have two front slits near the waist through which a person's arms may be extended; for men it is a (generally) single-breasted overcoat with sleeves, the shoulder cape usually extending only to the elbows; similar to the Ulster and Inverness

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope