epifemur
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Searchable Lemmata: epifemur (L).
Alternate Forms: epyfemur.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Garment;
equated in glossaries variously with a breechgirdle and a pauncher (qqv.), and thus either meaning 'belt, girdle', a sense common to both glossed terms, or, a piece of armour or covering for the thigh.(circa 1400 - circa 1500 ?)
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, a medieval compound of the (originally Greek) preposition epi- 'upon, at' + Latin femor/femur 'thigh'. Found primarily in fifteenth-century glossarial contexts, and likely a scholarly coining.
WF: Compound
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