liripipe
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Searchable Lemmata: liripipe (MdE), liripipium (L), leripipium (L).
Alternate Forms: kiripipium, kiripipii, liripipio, liripipia.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Headgear;
long pointed, pipe-like or cord-like extension to a hood worn in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The word is attested only in Latin during the medieval period; MdE liripipe, and the phrase 'liripipe hood', are scholarly adoptions dating to the early modern period. Cf. tippet.(circa 1350 - post 1500)
2. Habent etiam capucia parva sub mento stricta modo mulierum botonata, insuper, in circuitu filacteriis aureis, argenteis, et lapidibus pretiosis insuta, liripipia usque talum longa modo fatuorum dilacerata.
Historic.
[DMLBS Eul. Hist. (III 230) ante 1366]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head.
2(n.) ;
elongated point of a shoe; cf. pike, pigace, cracow. OED sub liripipe 1b suggests that an eighteenth-century definition of leripoop in this sense was 'perhaps a mistaken guess'; but the medieval sources show the usage was genuine.(circa 1230 - post 1440)
4. [56] ... nullus arcista legat nisi nigri coloris ... [57] ... nullus ... magister sotularibus liripipiatis vel decidis vel decollatis calciatus lectiones legat ordinarias
Legal.
[DMLBS StatOx (56-57) ante 1350]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.
Etymological Evidence:
Hypothetical, No definite etymology has been found, though the OED notes that a connection with F. pipe is 'not unlikely'. It is uncertain at what point the Latin word was borrowed into English. OED considers this the source of Early MdE liripoop, leripoop 'something to be learned and acted' attested from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. There is no evidence that the word was used in English for the garments before the eighteenth century, from when it is used chiefly in scholarly and historic instances.
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