Meanings
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I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.
After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).