Berdash

Ber´dash


n.1.A kind of neckcloth.
A treatise against the cravat and berdash.
- Steele.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(53) We see this image of the berdache in the well-known painting of the Dance of the Berdash by George Catlin, representing either a Sauk or Fox ceremony dedicated to, even while ridiculing, the berdaches of these tribes, closely affiliated as they were to the Illinois.
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