The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyclas \Cy"clas\ (s?"kl?s), n. [Cf. Ciclatoun.] A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A long gown or surcoat, cut off in front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. 2 A rich stuff from which such gowns were made.
Usage examples of "cyclas".
The maiden fidgeted, she plucked at the ends of the wimple that lay about her shoulders, she smoothed the rich cyclas of her mantle and finally she arose and bowing before the princess asked if she might go and bid farewell to her mother.
Finally he drew on a sort of short cyclas or tabard of richly embroidered dark green velvet It was seamed from waist to hips and cut off short there, exposing the full length of his legs.
Hosen, shirts, cyclas, and under-jupons are in the brown basket on the left side of the mule.
She also made a point of wearing a plain green cyclas over her bliaud while at court.
A slender, vine-work design, embroidered in gold, bordered the cyclas, and it was in arranging so that the course of this would form harmonious lines, wherein the skill and difficulty of the task mainly lay.
She had seen glances hot with wine and lust, claspings of hands, loosened cyclas, and more lascivious reclinings.