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Definition of Liripipes
1. liripipe [n] - See also: liripipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liripipes
Literary usage of Liripipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum by Montague Rhodes James (1895)
"They all wear gowns and capes with hoods attached, ending in long liripipes. 186.
STATUTES. Vellum, 81 x 6\, ff. 357, 29 lines to a page. Cent, xv (1460). ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1895)
"... from under the cape hang the long liripipes or streamers of the hood. Round the
hips was an ornamented belt, and the legs were clothed in tight hose. ..."
3. Costume of Colonial Times by Alice Morse Earle (1894)
"liripipes. Pendent streamers to a hood or head-dress, often long enough to hang
... These liripipes were of gauze or ribbons and were not used as strings, ..."
4. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1900)
"... archbishop of Canterbury, and the convocation of his province forbade in 1460
the use of "hoods with short liripipes commonly called Tippets" in public ..."
5. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"... cross-cloths and chin-clouts, commodes and towers, veils and dominoes, lappets
and liripipes, fontanges and shades, mobs and nightcaps, ..."
6. English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop (1906)
"... which is jagged at the hem; some are close about the neck and are plain ; some
have long liripipes falling from the peak of the hood, and others have a ..."
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