Crossword-Solution: ALGERS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

She knew what milliners to frequent, and frequented them a good deal; she, whom the question of clothes had always rather bored, and whose well-dressed appearance in the past had been due chiefly to her father’s wish and the excellence of her dressmaker, now spent hours in choosing a hat, days in deciding between the attractions of drap d’Algers and soie de chaméléon, between the becomingness, as colours, of Poland earth, wood violet, lie de vin, and souris.

Lavender is the basis of all your perfumes, and the rainbow of all your colours." As she spoke a very pretty woman, elaborately dressed in violet drap d’Algers and swansdown, and extravagantly painted, passed them for the third or fourth time in her carriage.

One of these, written in 1320, tells us that the tax-payers numbered nine—William Smith, John Traps, William Woodward, John Goldyng (Goldings-hill), Geoffrey Algor (Algers-road), Sewall Renoit, Godfrey Bigge, Richard Brown, and Stephen Shepherd—who among them contributed 23s.—equivalent it may be to £23 and more nowadays.