amictu

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[6680] Latet plerumque sub tristi amictu lascivia, et deformis horror vili veste tegitur; ofttimes under a mourning weed lies lust itself, and horrible vices under a poor coat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007
Insulana vero, sive montana, ferma gens est et indomita, rudis et immorigerata, raptu capax, otium diligens, ingenio docilis et callida; forma spectabilis, sed amictu deformis; populo quidem

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
According to tradition, He occupied half-an-hour _ab amictu ad amictum_; and even in the tiny empty chapel

Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson 1892
quae tibi securos non sinit ire dies et, cum te fusco Somnus uelauit amictu, 55

He dreams that Neaera is false to him Lygdamus 1912
'nigro circumvelatus amictu Maeret Hymen, fumantque atrae sine lumine taedae'.

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803