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paenula

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Searchable Lemmata: paenula (L), paenulum (L), penula (ME), paenula (MdE).
Alternate Forms: penulam, paenulis, paenulas, penul, perrula, pendulæ, penularum, penulas.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; a sleeveless, (frequently hooded) garment, such as a cloak; an ecclesiastical chasuble, possibly also a cope (cf. Mayo, J. (1984)). Isidore equates it with the type of cloak called pallium and says it had long fringes.(ante 700 - circa 1500)
1. Paenula est pallium cum fimbriis longis. Lacerna pallium fimbriatum quod olim soli milites utebantur; unde et in distinguenda castrensi urbanaque turba hos togatos, illos lacernatos vocabant. Inde autem lacernae quasi amputatis capitibus fimbriarum, neque ita laxis ut sunt paenularum. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,24,14)]
2. Penula gerenod cæppe.cope; possibly a chasuble (cf. Mayo 1984) [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (072700 (724))]
3. Paenula pallium cum longis fimbriis erat. [DOE AntGl 7 (Kindschi) (028600 (286))]
4. Paenulatus i paenula indutus. [DOE AntGl 7 (Kindschi) (028500 (285))]
5. Penula lacerna in modum cucullæ. [DOE CorpGl 2 (Hessels) (592200 (14.246))]
6. palliorum genera intueri libebat: ... paludamentum, diploidem, paenulam Gloss. [DMLBS BALSH. (Ut. 53d) ante 1181]
7. Trium penularum de bissis, pro byssis ... Penula de agnis [MED in Strutt Dress (2.43) 1200]
8. hec paenula, ... aliquando est tunica Gloss. [DMLBS Gl. AN Glasg. (f. 21ra (b)) 1200/1299]
9. Domine habent sepe ibi camisias subtiles, teristra, supara et pepla, gallice winples, ut dixi, et bliotas, penulas et campestria, gallice bifes, quia penula grossa vestis est, gallice pene. [AND TLL (1,215,8-10) circa 1246]
10. Penula [WB(2): The cloth; L Penulam; Dc 369(2): Penulam, that is, cloth of Romayns, or book, which I lefte at Troade ... bryng with thee] Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Dub 75) 2 Tim.4.13) ante 1400]
11. The procutour 3ede to the market ... and brou3t home a foule cote and a schorte, which my3t haue ben callyd penula, quasi pene nulla, it was as no3t Ecclesiastic/Regula. (work: c1425?) [MED Spec.Sacer. ((Add 36791) 238/36) ante 1500]
c.f.: pallium, chasuble
L, ME, MdE; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Shoulder(s).
2a(n.) Accessory; lining or trim of a garment, (frequently) of fur.(circa 1220)
1. pallium de blu cum paenula de bisse Accounts. [DMLBS CurR (VIII 270) 1220]
2. pelliparii [gl.: parmenterz, le peliters] ditantur per sua pellicea et penulas et furraturas ... item pelliparii vendunt pelles deliciosas Gloss. [DMLBS GARL. (Dict. 125b) ante 1230]
3. robam integram de cameletto cum paenulis de minuto vario Accounts. [DMLBS Cl (290) 1252]
4. mandatum est ... emptoribus garderobe regis quod faciant habere M. B. tunicam, supertunicam, pallium et capam de quocunque panno eligere voluerit et fururas de minuto vario ad supertunicam et capam et paenulam ad pallium Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Cl (261c) 1263]
5. Furryn wythe furre: Furro, penulo ... Furrynge: Furratura [vr. pellicatura] ... Furwre, or furrure: Penula, furratura ... Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 183) 1440]
6. Pane, of a furrure: Penula Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 381) 1440]
c.f.: pane, furrure
L; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2b(n.) Furnishing; lining of a bed-cover (frequently) of fur.(circa 1200 - circa 1250 ?)
1. coopertorium de viridi panno ... cujus paenula sit taxea [gl.: pane de tessun] vel catina Gloss. [DMLBS NECKAM (Ut. 100a) ante 1217]
2. emi faciant unam pulcram culcitram de serico et unum matracium et quoddam coopertorium de scarletto cum paenula de bissis ... ad opus A. de L. de dono regis Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Cl (250) 1236]
L; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin. Probably went out of use by c. 1500, but revived in the early modern period as a historical term and still current with that sense.
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