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armilausa

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Searchable Lemmata: armilausa (L), armilausia (L), armiclausa (L).
Alternate Forms: armilausae, armellosa.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; garment; in earliest references at least, of the shirt type.(ante 700 - post 1470)
1. Armilausa vulgo vocata quod ante et retro divisa atque aperta est, in armos tantum clausa; quasi armiclausa, C littera ablata. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,22,28)]
2. Armilausia serce. [DOE ClGl 1 (Stryker) (035400 (373))]
3. collobia: frocs, gulunis/ levitonaria: scapuleres / armilausas (vestes tegentes armos .i. scapulos) : espalés / lumbaria : widicoloris [wadecors] [AND TLL (2,60,26-27)]
4. armilausia seirhe i camisia. [DOE CollGl 25 (014600 (146))]
5. judicium et pena aldermanni, eo quod armilausa sive cloca sua fuit simplex et non furrata(LBLond H) [DMLBS MGL (I 609) 1376]
6. unam armilausam dupplicatam et alia vestimenta ad corpus dicte Matillidis spectancia Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Pat (321 m. 9) 1386]
7. Armilausam vocatam Belle de scarlet Wills. [MED Will of Baldwin Radyngton Knt. ([OD col.]) 1401]
8. lego meam hoplandam et armilausam meam viridis coloris Accounts. [DMLBS Reg. Heref. (44) 1418]
c.f.: sark, chemise, espalet, espauler, belle
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2(n.) Accessory; clasp (thus DMLBS). Dubious, from a fifteenth-century gloss on Isidore (citation 1 in the sense above).(1400 - 1500)
1. hoc armiclausum, a claspe Gloss. [DMLBS WW (armiclausum) post 1400]
L.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Late Latin, from Germanic. Cf. Latin armella, armilla.
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