Re: Courtliness, SCA, Cloved Fruit

[Julia Windsor <lywindsor@yahoo.com>]

Poster: Julia Windsor <lywindsor@yahoo.com>


---"Joyce A. Baldwin" <jocetta@ibm.net> wrote:
 
> BTW, for those unacquainted with the custom: a Lord or Lady presents a
> clove studded fruit (orginally and classically a lemon, but people
have
> been getting creative) to a member of the opposite gender. 
Optionally, the
> one presented with the fruit may remove and gently bite a clove to
sweeten
> the breathe.  They then kiss.  A lord may kiss only the portion of
the lady
> that is offered:  the rule is Ladies' Choice/Gentlemans'  Consent. 
This
> means the kiss can range from a gallant (non-slobbery) salutation on
the
> back of the lady's extended hand (in one case I've heard of, her
little
> finger only),  to a friendly peck on the cheek she presents,  to an
> attempted tonsillectomy.  A discreet withdrawal to a secluded
location is
> recommended for the latter option.  
> 
> The gentle who has received the fruit then finds another gentle of the
> opposite gender to present it to, and so it circulates around the
event.
> 
> WARNING!  In some locations there is a custom that if a lady is
presented
> with a fruit with a single remaining clove in it and accepts, she is
> implying that she will accompany the lord home that evening.  THIS
IS NOT
> UNIVERSAL!  It is not, as far as I know, a custom in the Eastern
Seaboard
> kingdomes.  DO NOT assume any lady has knowlege of it!

That's the way it was explained to me those many years ago, and I've
never lived in another kingdom.

Julia

  

==
Lady Julia Windsor
Argent, a portcullis and chief embattled azure.

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