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cloak

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Searchable Lemmata: cloc (Corn), clóca (Ir), cloca (L), cloke (ME), cloke (OScots), cloke (AF), clog (W).
Alternate Forms: cloccam, cloche, cloches, clocia, clocum clokke.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; overgarment; mantle. An overgarment which fastens at the neck or shoulder and falls loosely; a bell-shaped garment worn over the shoulders, particularly whilst riding.(ante 700 still in current use)
1. ut cloccam ... nobis transmittatis, grande solacium peregrinationis nostrae Other. [DMLBS BONIF. (Ep. 76b) 747]
2. [332va] ... Chauscez voz brais, soulers (ME shoos) & gans ... [332vb] ... les laniers que vous atache Les enchauncez sanz frounscer ... Vous avez la chemise (ME serke) & la cote ... Mettez (ME do on) le chaperon (ME hode), couvrez (ME hele) le chief ... Mon surkete (ME sourkote) & ma cloke (ME cloke) ... [AND BIBB ((O) 332va-b) circa 1250]
3. He nam one cloke [Clg: cape] of his one cnihte and on þe monek he hire dude Heroic, Historic. [MED Lay.Brut ((Otho C.13) 13097) circa 1300]
4. supertunicas talares de nigro vel russeto clausas habeant, quibus sive mantellis aut clothis [l. clochis] nigris ... desuper induantur Other. [DMLBS Eng. Clergy (272) 1335]
5. fratres sacerdotes ... hospitalis ... in equitando cloca rotunda competentis longitudinis ... utantur (Const. Hosp. S. Juliani) Historic. [DMLBS G.S. Alb. (II app. 492) 1345]
6. [45] ... quatorze draps d’or vertz et cynk draps d’argent ... pur coverlitz ... pur les litz meisme nostre fille, quatre pieces contenantes oyt draps de camaka doublés ... [46] ... qe a nostre trescher filz facez liverer deux cloches figurees de menevoire Accounts. [AND PRO E101/395/2 (45-46) circa 1370]
7. [566] ... A male twyfold [vr. twifolde; Elsm: tweyfoold] on his croper lay; It semed þat he caryed lytel aray ... [571] ... His cloke was sowed to his hood ... [574] ... His hat heeng at his bak doun by a laas ... [633] ... His ouersloppe [vrr. ouerslope, ouersclope, ouer slop; ouer clothe] nys nat worth a myte ... It is al baudy and to tore also Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.CY. ((Manly-Rickert) G.566-633) circa 1395]
8. Shal no seriaunt for here seruyse were ... no pelure in his cloke Poetic, Vision. (work: c1378) [MED PPl.B ((LdMisc 581) 3.294) circa 1400]
9. Y ceiliog dewr a’r clog duUsed metaphorically. [GPC DGG (58b) circa 1450]
10. fear nár iarr do chlóca acht ceirt [eDIL Ir. Review (1912, 471 §5)]
11. dysweth y a than the glokIn this instance, the term refers to a garment worn by a smith. [LexP Passio XPI (Norris) (2682)]
12. Hir clokys also wer daggyd & leyd wyth dyuers colowrs be-twen þe daggys þat it schuld be þe mor staryng to mennys sygth ... Sche weryd gold pypys on hir hevyd Vision. [MED MKempe A ((Add 61823) 9/5-16) ante 1438]
c.f.: armilausa
AF, Co, Ir, L, ME, MdE, OScots, W.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Shoulder(s).

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French cloke, cloche, a cape; ultimately from Latin clocca, cloca, which originally meant 'bell' (hence English clock, Irish clog etc.) but was also used for 'bell-shaped outer-garment, bell-shaped cape' and hence cloaks in general.
WF:
Etym Cog: cloke, cloca, cloc, clocher.
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