Chaucer portrays The Wife of Bath?s physical attributes, saying: ?Gat-toothed was she smoothly for to saye? (line ). Her gap symbolizes her sexual accomplishments and her vast beauty. To farther our vivid image of such a woman we should look to the third stanza of the general prologue,

Hir coverchiefs ful fine were ground-

I dorste swere they weyeden ten pounds-

That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed.

Ful straite yted , and shoes ful moiste and newe.

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