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houve

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Searchable Lemmata: hufe (OE), houve (ME), houve (MdE).
Alternate Forms: hewre, heuve, honne houfe, houffe, houue, houwe, hove, how, howe, huf, hufan, huve, ofo, ouve, owue.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Headgear; headdress or hat. In the Anglo-Saxon era, equated in some glosses with high-status religious headgear (see cidaris, mitre); by the later medieval period referring to a close-fitting cap or coif.(circa 1000 - circa 1720)
1. Cidarim ł mitra hufe [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0817 (817))]
2. Cuphia hufe mitra. Gloss. [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (0123 (123))]
3. mitrę .i. hufan. Gloss. Cf. AldV 13.1 5242: mitrę: hættes, hufan. [DOE AldV 7.1 (0356 (353))]
4. I come in to þis world Boþe naked and bare; Nedde I to myn hed houue ne hod. [MED Disp.GM & Devil ((Vrn) 199) circa 1390]
5. [248] ... Hoseare [vrr. hose3ere, hosiare], or he þat makythe hosyne: Caligarius ... [249] ... Howe [Win: howue] or hure, heed hyllynge: Tena, capedulum, sidaris Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 248-9) 1440]
6. [1] ... Hoc perplicar, Anglice gartere. Hoc subligar, idem ... [14] ... Hec tena, Anglice, howe ... [38] ... Hec ligula, Anglice garter Lexicon. [MED Roy.17.C.17 Nominale ((Roy 17.C.17) 655/1-14, 38) ante 1425]
c.f.: caphia, cidaris, tena
ME, MdE, OE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head.
1b(n.) Headgear; specifically, a lawyer's coif (such as that described by Chaucer's Sergent at Law); often of silk.(ante 1376 - post 1450)
1. Shal no seriaunt for þat seruyse were [vrr. wern, weore] a silk houue [vrr. houfe, howe, owue], Ne no ray robe Poetic, Vision. (also cf. Ib. prol.84: 'Þere houide an hundrit in houuis [vr. howfys; C: houes] of silk, Seriauntis ... þat seruide at þe barre') [MED PPl.A(1) ((Trin-C R.3.14) 3.270) ante 1376]
2. Anoþer banere es vpbrayde with a bende of grene, With thre hedis white-herede with howes one lofte Poetic. (c 1353) [MED Winner & W. ((Add 31042) 149-150) circa 1450]
c.f.: coif
ME.
Sex: Male    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head.
1c(n.) ; also appears in expressions: 'houve of glass'/ 'glass houve' (delusive protection); 'make a houve of glas'/ 'give a glass houve' (to delude); 'glass houve' (to deceive); 'clout houve'/ 'cut houve' (get the better of); 'make an houve above a cawl' (to hoodwink); 'set houve' (to make a fool of). Also appears in placenames.(1200 - 1600)
ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A, Neck, Waist.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old English hufe, cognate with OHG huba, ON húfa, from Common Germanic. Bosworth and Toller's dictionary gives the citation 'biscopes huf flammeolum vel flammeum', taking huf as synonymous with flammeola (q.v.) 'woman's veil' etc.; in fact this is a misreading for 'biscopes hus flamineolum', derived from flamina, an alternative word for bishop.
WF:
Etym Cog: huvel (AF).
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