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This is your monthly reminder not to romanticize the past too much (lemmy.world)
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And in either case, you'd have lice

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Poor people were forbidden from wearing most animal furs by sumptuary laws. Cats were as high-class as you were allowed to go as a filthy poor in late medieval England. Hence the phrase "more than one way to skin a cat" - cat skinning was, indeed, a means of making money...