Can anyone help?
I read that the term Zurlo originates in Venice. It is used as a loan-term in a small family of Greek/hybrid words, centered on it. One of those (Zourlomandyas) means "straitjacket", and i have some interest in this term due to some links to a setting in France (a hospital in the outskirts of central Paris, where supposedly the straitjacket was first used).
In french it seems to be called "Camisole de Force"1. I also would like to ask why it is termed a camisole, ie if that term originally meant some other type of clothing, since now it seems to refer to one which has no sleeves and is quite light.
The loan-term Zurlo seems to only mean "crazy" in its use here. But i want to find out if in its original italian setting it meant something with other connotation
I read that the term Zurlo originates in Venice. It is used as a loan-term in a small family of Greek/hybrid words, centered on it. One of those (Zourlomandyas) means "straitjacket", and i have some interest in this term due to some links to a setting in France (a hospital in the outskirts of central Paris, where supposedly the straitjacket was first used).
In french it seems to be called "Camisole de Force"1. I also would like to ask why it is termed a camisole, ie if that term originally meant some other type of clothing, since now it seems to refer to one which has no sleeves and is quite light.
The loan-term Zurlo seems to only mean "crazy" in its use here. But i want to find out if in its original italian setting it meant something with other connotation
