The Only Use of
Quakers
in
Wuthering Heights
- She had cried out, when I carried up her dinner, that she couldn't bear any longer being in the cold; and I told her the master was going to Thrushcross Grange, and Earnshaw and I needn't hinder her from descending; so, as soon as she heard Heathcliff's horse trot off, she made her appearance, donned in black, and her yellow curls combed back behind her ears as plain as a Quaker: she couldn't comb them out.†
Chpt 30Quaker = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Definition:
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)