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Old clerical scarf
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liripipe
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (obsolete form of liripoop English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liripipe \Lir"i*pipe\ (l[i^]r"[i^]*p[imac]p), n. [Obs.] See Liripoop .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A liripipe is an element of clothing , the tail of a hood or cloak , or a long-tailed hood. The modern-day liripipe appears on the hoods of academic dress .
Usage examples of liripipe.
On his head was a taltry, worn beneath a filthy chaperon that ended in an outrageously long liripipe wound under his chin and over the top.
Unmoved by the presence of his captors, the Ertishman continued to sing, dance, and leap into the air, which caused his liripipe to unwind and tangle around his legs.
Hearty merchants wrangled with their customers, apple-cheeked women in kirtles and wimples, or tall men with colorful liripipe hoods.
From his soft felt hat with its jaunty feathers and trailing liripipe, to the fine supple leather of his riding boots, everything about him proclaimed him a wealthy man.
Doctor Moss swept off his flat velvet hat with its trailing liripipe, and prompted by a businesslike poke in the ribs, Anne dropped down into a curtsy.
Lowest in rank are the surpliced choristers wearing hoods, with, in some instances, a liripipe depending from them behind.
Subsequently this mark took the form of a round cap, attached to which was a long liripipe, which might be wound round the head, but more usually hung over the arm.
And along the flanks of this cavalcade ran grooms and huntsmen in green and leather, their jagged liripipes flung about their necks, leading the leashed hounds.
On their heads, loud-colored taltries tapered to ludicrously long liripipes, which they draped about their shoulders like quiescent vipers.
In the opening to the grotto, Meersh beheld strange finery every day: linen robes and striped headdresses beside smudges that looked like tailcoats and ruffles, bustiers and hoop-skirted ball gowns, liripipes and lithams.