Be-piped

In the streets, also, the variety of dresses and costumes of the inhabitants of almost every city and country to Europe, who have come to do homage to the memory of the great maestro, adds to the peculiarity of the scene; and the flaunting lace caps of the women, the showy uniforms of the civil and military authorities, and the be-capped, be-piped, and be-ringletted Bürchen[-]classe who throng the streets, give the whole the appearance of a carnival on a grand scale.