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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 4062718, member: 1476"]Good question! I just tootled around the (Spanish) internet to see what lilies represented during period and whether your inscription was a quotation from a poem, for instance. (It isn't, not that I could find.) Lilies, when linked with roses, could signify hidden love. Or they could quite literally mean "white" as in "fair complexion." Given Colonial Spain's preoccupation with <i>casta</i>, I think that's more likely the meaning. The associated ideas would be: lineage, social standing, refinement... The qualities associated with being a "lady" in the British sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]328489[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 4062718, member: 1476"]Good question! I just tootled around the (Spanish) internet to see what lilies represented during period and whether your inscription was a quotation from a poem, for instance. (It isn't, not that I could find.) Lilies, when linked with roses, could signify hidden love. Or they could quite literally mean "white" as in "fair complexion." Given Colonial Spain's preoccupation with [I]casta[/I], I think that's more likely the meaning. The associated ideas would be: lineage, social standing, refinement... The qualities associated with being a "lady" in the British sense. Debora [ATTACH=full]328489[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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