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At Naseby "a hundred [women] were barbarously slaughtered on the spot, while most of the rest had their faces slashed or their noses slit to mark them as whores" (Austin Woolrych). How old is this latter practice of slitting noses? Does it have a backstory?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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