Obs. Also therese. [prob. from the name of the Empress Maria Theresa (1717–80).] An article of female attire in the 18th c.: see quot. 1846.
1770. Foote, Lame Lover, III. Throwing her Teresa aside—upon my soul she is prodigious fine.
1846. Fairholt, Costume in Eng. (1860), Gloss., Therese, a light gauze kerchief worn over the ladies’ head-dress about 1786.
