kissing strings

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kissing strings - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kissing strings \Kiss"ing strings`\n.
     Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.
  
           One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and
           fluttering and now faded and soiled.     --Pall Mall
                                                    Mag.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]