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Skim´ming`ton

A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.

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Skimitry Skimmerton	Keywords: Rule of Thumb, intimate assaults, patriarchy, male victims, Skimmington ********** He can chew iron bars, Cutalianos can. The "great taboo" and the role of patriarchy in husband and wife abuse by George, Malcolm J. / International Journal of Men's Health Molly Easo Smith writes, "As in Shakespeare, the central images of the world-upside-down and the woman-on-top in The Woman's Prize derive from popular cultural activities such as the charivari; but unlike the conventional charivari or skimmington, as it was known in England, which purported to teach women their place in the ordained hierarchy and men how to impose such order, Fletcher's play targets male tyranny and expectations" (55-56). Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen by Iyengar, Sujata / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Chapter 4 begins with a discussion of a group of women in Quemerford who fought against a planned skimmington of one of their friends by destroying the drum that was to be used in the event. Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in ... by Uman, Deborah / Shakespeare Studies	Skilts Skilty skim Skim coat Skim colter skim milk skim off skim over skim sweeping skim through skim-read Skimback skimble-scamble skimboard skimboarding skimcoat Skimitry skimmed skimmed milk skimmer Skimmerton skimmia Skimming Skimmingly skimmings Skimmington skimobile skimp skimp over skimpily skimpiness skimpy skin skin and bones skin cancer skin care skin cell skin color skin colour skin cream skin disease skin disorder skin diver skin diving skin doctor skin drag skin effect skin eruption skin flick skin food skin friction	skimmed milk skimmed milk skimmed milk skimmed over skimmed over skimmed over skimmer skimmer Skimmers Skimmers Skimmerton Skimmia Skimmia skimmias skimmias skimming skimming skimming skimming skimming skimming skimming coat skimming coat skimming over skimming over skimming over skimming plant Skimming Pricing Skimmingly skimmings Skimmington skimmingtons skimobile skimobiles skimp skimp skimp skimp on skimp over skimped skimpier skimpier skimpiest skimpiest skimpily skimpily skimpiness skimpiness skimping skimping Skimpole, Horace skimps skimpy skimpy skims skims skims skims skims skims skims

Keywords: Rule of Thumb, intimate assaults, patriarchy, male victims, Skimmington ********** He can chew iron bars, Cutalianos can.

The "great taboo" and the role of patriarchy in husband and wife abuse by George, Malcolm J. / International Journal of Men's Health

Molly Easo Smith writes, "As in Shakespeare, the central images of the world-upside-down and the woman-on-top in The Woman's Prize derive from popular cultural activities such as the charivari; but unlike the conventional charivari or skimmington, as it was known in England, which purported to teach women their place in the ordained hierarchy and men how to impose such order, Fletcher's play targets male tyranny and expectations" (55-56).

Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen by Iyengar, Sujata / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Chapter 4 begins with a discussion of a group of women in Quemerford who fought against a planned skimmington of one of their friends by destroying the drum that was to be used in the event.

Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in ... by Uman, Deborah / Shakespeare Studies

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