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# Iron scold's bridle used on women accused of gossip in 17th-century England
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-anglii-xvii-veka-eta-konstruktsiia-primenialas-k-zhenshchinam-obviniaemym-v-spletnichestve-ustanovlennyi-na-golove-metallicheskii-karkas-ne-pozvolial-otkryt-rot/
- Published: 2022-07-28T06:09:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:55:31.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Museums, Mores, Society

In seventeenth-century England, this contraption was applied to women accused of gossiping: a metal frame fitted over the head made it impossible to open the mouth. A woman convicted of so nebulous an offence as tittle-tattle was required to walk through the town in such headgear

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