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tunicle

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Searchable Lemmata: tunicula (L), tunicella (L), tunicle (ME), tunikle (AF), tunicle (MdE).
Alternate Forms: conicula, tenacles, teneclus, teniclis, tinacle, tinaculus, tinecle, tinicles, tonakil, tonecle, tonekillis, toneklis, tonica, tonicle, tonicles, tonicula, toniculae, tonikel, tunacle, tunakelle, tunakil, tunaklis, tunekel, tunicella, tunicellae, tunicles, tuniculis, tuniculus, tunikellis, tunikeltinacul, tunnicles, tunnikklis, tunniklis, twnykill.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Garment; originally a 'small tunic', the tunicle was associated with various vestments and came to have extended and metaphorical uses (a wrapping, covering, etc.). At least by the early Modern period, the tunicle was specified as worn by the subdeacon, having one horizontal stripe (rather than the two of a standard dalmatic) and worn over the alb, although it occasionally appears as worn by bishops and other ecclesiastical ranks. Cf. dalmatic.(ante 1230 still in current use)
1. Wyth a prestis vestment hale, With twnykill and dalmatyk Historic. [DOST Wynt. (IX. 595) circa 1420]
2. [301] ... I yeue ... to the saide cherche ... my principal vestiment of motle ueluet, cope, chesible, and ij tunicles ... Also an auter cloth of Paris werk to be layed on the heigh auter euery heigh feste in the yere ... [302] ... I yeue & assigne ... also a vestiment of blak bawdekyn, with a tonycle, and ye Aube longyng therto ... [303] ... ij auter clothes in maner of lenton clothes Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5 (301-303) 1429]
3. [8] ... je devise ... une paire de vestimentz de satyn bleu et noir palee et ribane d’ore entre les palez ... c’est assavoir chesible, aube ... une chesible, ij tonicles, iij aubes ... fruntel et ij napes pur icelle ... une mantelle de perce blew furré de gray ... Les iij paires vestimentz ferialez, l’un bleu, l’autre blanc et la tierce drape esteignez ... ij touaillez frengés pur les ditz suytz de vermaille et bleu ... une frounte de satin rouge frengez ... [11] ... un hopeland linez ové bokeramnoir Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Reg Chich (ii 8-11) 1414/1443]
4. [227] ... mon vestment de satyn blank, embroudez d’or ... lequele je achatay de C., brouderer de Londres ... iij copes, ... un coperax, ij contins (l. cortins?), ij toualles ... [228] ... une estole et un fanon de rouge velvet enbroudez d’un frette d’or ... moun rouge vestiment de velvet ... ovecque trestout l’apparail a ycelles vestiments appartenant ... deux tonicles, iij aubes ... Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Test Ebor (i 227-228) 1316/1491]
5. Item, x auter clothis of playne and napery; Item, xviii towelles playne and diaperid ... Item, ii copis, i chesepill, ii tunyclis with other ornamentes of blew veluet ... i white tynacle of fustian, i white cloth for the high auter Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Doc.in HMC Rep.3 App. (316.A) 1447]
6. For the embrowdyng golde silke and other stuff, of ij copis, chesibill, et ij Tonykel Legal. [MED Pet.Hen.VI in Archaeol.16 (6) 1448]
7. Sche sawe owre lorde standynge nere the awtere lyke a dekene in a tunakelle Ecclesiastic/Regula. [MED Bk.GGrace ((Eg 2006) 28/8) circa 1450]
AF; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Arm, Back, Chest, Shoulder(s), Waist.
1b(n.) Garment; regal or ceremonial garment, resembling the ecclesiastical tunicle; a richly ornamented robe. Cf. dalmatic.(circa 1378 - 1744)
1. [15.162] ... Charite ... As proude of a peny as of a pounde of gold, And is as gladde of a goune of a graye russet As of a tunicle of tarse [C: a cote of cammoka] or of trye scarlet ... [15.182] ... Þanne wil he [Charity] some tyme Labory in a lauendrye wel þe lengthe of a myle ... And bouken hem at his brest, and beten hem clene, And ... wasshen hem after Poetic, Vision. (work: c1378) [MED PPl.B ((LdMisc 581) 15.162-182) circa 1400]
2. He ... ther conquered for a prerogatiff Sondri crownes, with many riche stone, Whan [read: Wan] tunicles of gold ful many one Heroic, Historic. (dating uncertain) [MED Lydg.FP ((Bod 263) 4.236) ante 1439]
3. [1542] ... A Mitre Was forgid all of fyne gold & fret full of perrils. ... [1547] ... Doctours & diuinours ... & iogis of þe lawe Ware tired all in tonacles of tarrayn webbis ... [1569] ... Sum bolstirs of burnet [Dub: burnett], en-brouden with perill Heroic, Historic, Poetic, Romance. (work: a1400?) [MED Wars Alex. ((Ashm 44) 1542-1569) circa 1450]
4. When all these blessyngis be done, the kynge shall be clothid bi the abbot of westmynst' with a longe tunycle wovyn wt greet ymages of golde before and behynde upon the forseyde mantell of estate Other. (work: a1460) [MED Coron.Kings Eng.in Archaeol.57 ((Mrg M 775) 49) ante 1486]
ME; Primarily Poetic.
Sex: Male    Use: Secular    Status: High    Rank: High    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, L tunicula, Medieval L tunicella, tunicale, tunicla; British L tonicula (deminuative of tunica); and Old French tunikle (from tunike - cf. AF). Latham gives the initial date for the form *tunicula (thence tunicella, tonicula, etc.) in a British text.
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    Archaeological Evidence:

References: Mayo, J. (1984)

    Art and Illustration:

References: Johnstone, P. (2002)
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