Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An outer garment worn by some of the monastic clergy in the middle ages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A short
cope , or aninferior kind of cope.
Etymologies
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semi- + cope
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Examples
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5 Of double worstede was his semicope, and rounded as a belle out of the presse.
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