liripipe

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Lowest in rank are the surpliced choristers wearing hoods, with, in some instances, a liripipe depending from them behind.

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  • Lowest in rank are the surpliced choristers wearing hoods, with, in some instances, a liripipe depending from them behind. —  The Customs of Old England
  • 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. —  The Customs of Old England
  • Some -- indeed a good deal -- of the piquancy of the later is not yet apparent; but its absence implies, and is more than compensated by, the concomitant absence of those airs and flings, those interludes as of an academic jester, in cap and gown and liripipe instead of motley, which have been charged, not quite unjustly, on the Arnold that we know best. —  Matthew Arnold
 

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  1. Medieval Latin liripipium.

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  1. Also liripippe, lerripippe = Middle Dutch lierepijpe; from Middle Latin liripipium: see liripipium.
 

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