Some dark and unusual words came to light while looking back at the history of headgear. The recently finished reading the Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester, Harper Collins, 1998) on the genesis of the Oxford English Dictionary, I thought it might be so old, in terms of fun exploring the definitions and etymology of some, many of which have disappeared from modern use. [I want to take this step forward in the draft three or four parts, so stay tuned.]
Acan be placed under the word appears with a squiggly red line tool in Microsoft Word "Spelling. So, here goes:
Petasus
Shapes: 15 – petasus, 18 – Petasos.
[Tutulus
Archaeology.
[L. tutulus.]
A Roman head-dress made of plaiting the hair in a cone above the forehead, worn esp. by Flamen and his wife.
1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Tutulus the Romans, a way of dressing her hair and put them on the foreheadform of a tower … Tutulus marked with a wool hat on top. 1816 J. statues DALLAWAY & Sculpt. vi. 321 cap is the wife of a pope, .. tutulus or more of the hair is rolled with a ribbon around the top of the head. Farrar DARKN 1891 Dawn & XXVI Domizia Lepida if tutulus or conical head ~ dress, was the only task of a slave to decorate.
Batteries
[Wimple
[Late OE. pennant = (M) LG. (M) Te. pennant, OHG. wimpalVeil, banner (MHG., G. pennant pennant flag), op. vimpill (Sw., Da pennant LG ..) from AF. guimple (mod. F. guimpe), of which the variant wimple coincided with the native form. Ultimate origin uncertain.
It is unclear whether the senses are temporarily placed along and under the string. belong to the same word. In branch II there may be a case onomatopoeic element is the formation and meaning, cf. dimple, rimple, rumple, wrimple.]
I. 1 A piece of linen or she previouslyworn by women, and bent his head, chin, sides of the face of the envelope, and throat, now includes the dress of nuns. Even gene. A veil.
Freely used in the glossaries already rendering anabolic L. cyclase, peplum, ricinum.
A1100 Aldhelm Gloss. I. 4296 (Napier 112) Cyclades. I. hese, wimple. A1100 Gloss. in-Wr. Wülcker Ricinum 107/37, winpel NFB ENT. Ibid. 125 / 8 anabolic winpel. C1200 Step. Coll. Hire him 163 or winpel White eleu marked with saffron. partly responsible c1240. R. 420 (Ms.C) Sum AET cell affected limp strong wummon cundeliche was a pennant. c1250 girl. Sea Grete XLVII, ORU and Mitte by ih Christ WID wempel hin I respect her. 1297 R. GLOUC. (Rolls) 6941 Hire a dress wi Bodie, a banner whympel [Fri] heued the rent. C1374 Chaucer Troylus II. Being a 110 Oure wimpil Woy & Schewe our face only. C1386 Pröll. Full 151 wympul pynched semyly is Hir. 14 .. VOC. in-Wr. Wülcker 601/43 wynpul a peplum. Cron Wyntoun c1425. IX. xxv. Hayri wages in 2992arayande wompyll. c1440 Gesta Rom LXIX. The 317 rooms emperesse hydde face with a wympill because he did not know Ben-y. 1513 I. Douglas Aeneid VII. 115 to request flexible thaim ENA womple Bair Thai with handis betand breistis on the road. c1530 Crt. Hollywood in the 1102 and Eke nonnes Mark Vail and how bandages. 1560 Bible (Genev.) Isa. iii. The 22-dotted dresses and Vail and pennants, and pinnes crisp. 1805 SCOTT Last Cabinet ministers. V. whimple Seventeen white was her and herveil. 1819 Ivanhoe xlii, his flowing black wimple to invest. Walford Londoniana II 1879. Three sisters of 247 veils and whimple.
Transfer. Crooke 1615 Body of a special group of 123 men smooth and slippery Veyle or wimple is substrated. 1861 A. AUSTIN III Temple Bar 472 graves receive the rain Life wimple.
A second flag line. [A Stranger sentence.]
1656 Glossogr Blount, Wimple .. A vane or flag.
II. A third fold or bend, a track winding or turn a ripple orripple in a stream.
1513 Douglas Aeneid II. iv. 30 Bot thai about him in wympillis lowpit [orig. spiris] votes. 1593 Nash T. Christ 74B, is more curious than a wimple or place in your dress, so the art of spot and sex for your stay ning Spyrit Deere purchased.
1818 Brownie Hogg Bodsbeck XII. 225 I. .. wimple attendant hatred, as he calls it, of a toll. Ibid. xiv. II. 22 seemed a wimple link Mony 'tail like an eel. COOK Eliza 1845 Waters The Watersclear water .. Their minnow wimple lulleth only to sleep! STEVENSON in 1878 Will o 'Mill, Parson's Marj. The river, which flows between the paving stones with a pretty wimple.
A fourth trip or smart, a mask. Sc
1638 SIR A. JOHNSTON Diary (SHS) 320 Despite Wyles, wimple, which offers design, Letts and Uther. 1755 Ajax R. Forbes PA. 24 The golden helmet will look SAE, skyrin a Wi cut 'Brin, an' he wimple discover that I am Fan "brand that Sheen. SCOTT 1818HRT. Xxiv Temp: There's aye a wimple in a lawyer clew.
Therefore, a wimple-less, dressed not in a wimple.
partly responsible a1225. R. 420 or e-muwen Béon pennant LEA, two hot Keppenne BER.
Ventail
[A. AF. ventalha ventaille-tail, wait for all (mod.F. ventail MASC. = OProv., IT. fan), B. vent wind, air. So MHG. finteile wine vintale. A purely English variant is Aventail.
Because the sense of "breathing-place 'appears to be applicable to first useword (see sense 1) in French and English, the name might have given a piece of body armor of real or imaginary to another page so designated. Other ways of AF. words (and related forms ventele, and ventail vental) is an indicator of fans (a windmill), closed, shutter, leaf (of a folding door or a picture). In AF. love is the frequency ventaille. described as the heart or breast: cf. 1148 Chaucer Clerk's Tale]
First One Piecereinforcement of the neck where the helmet has a neck piece. Obs.
a1330 Roland & V. 863 ventail She gan VN-lace and beat heued second. 13 .. Guy Warw. (A.) 92 His t Michel helmets are like me, was the new man in Jordan running t-fi had in ventayle. a1400 Sir Perc In 1722 also one of HITT ventale Nekkar-Curse Thurgh and pesane. C1400 Laud Troy Bk. Its 14,375 Helmes was on his ventayles disperses. c1450 LOVELICH Grail XIV. 33 Helmes, hawberkes, &ventaylles also Grownde All dyde go.
a1400 Sqr. Lowe Degré 222 your net basis be burnysshed Bryght, you dyght Ventallo good, with gold stars will be set.
According to the bottom to make a helmet, in contrast with the valve, the last time that all the moving part of the valve.
C1400 Right. Troy 7030, the duke with a agayn derit dynt alone display and voider ventaile back. Antur c1400 Arth. XXXIII when auayletvppe hands until all its borders. Goals c1470. And GAW. 867 braidit took ventaill closit ING to west. a1533 LD. Berners Huon cxxiv. 448 under his helmet ventayle terys Downe water falls over his Eyen. 1590 Spenser FQ III. ii. 24 Through whose bright ventayle .. His face male .. lookt foorth. 1600 Fairfax rate VI. XXVI Ventallo HIE he was removed, descride beautiful face, her beauty and pride. 1802 James militia. Dict., Ventail that a portion of a helmetlift. SIR 1865 JK Jacobs Rate XX. XII, thro 'the beam ventayle flushed features shone. [1869 Boutella weapons and armor viii. 127 This piece, called mesail or mursail, .. but more commonly known in England as ventaile or visor, was pierced for both eyes and breathing] S. 1906 Heath effigies. Dorset 10 Some ~ times with a mobile ventaille or supervisor.
b. one of the openings or air holes. Obs. 1
Arthur Malory 1470-1485 X. LX. 516 The blood on break outsideventayls their helmets.
Third Something like a sail or a fan. Obs.
Colonel Clout Skelton a1529 400 [sisters] must bear vayles theyre black and sit right theyre fucking Sayles, Wynd to fish with their ventales.
Sallet
Antiq.
[AF lettuce ad. SP. Celada or IT. Celata believed ta L. Cael (see cassis or represent Galea), (a helmet) ornamented with engraving. MDU Cf. lettuce, sallade, Salla.
The L. reg. was not found in this elliptical use. Cf'Lorica galeæque Aeneas cælatæ Corinthia Works "(Cicero).]
In the first medieval weapons, a helmet light ball, with or without valve and without any outward curve down behind a shield.
c1440 Eng. Conq. Irela. iv. 11 (Ms. Rawl.) Ham do with haubergeons wepenyd and Bryght Salletis and sheldys. Marg Mash 1465 in P. Letter II. 189 First, a one Peyre brygandyrs Salette, a boresper [etc..] Caxton 1480 Review. Now. cclv. (1482)He SYR 331 vmfreys salad and brigantyns .. and its track and golden arayd dead himself a gentleman. c1537 Thersytes 55, I wanted to have a helmet to wash my food, is under my chyn with a red thong Buckeled will. T. Washington married 1585th Nicholay's Voy. IV. xxviii. 146B, on their heads [they] were hidden learning. 1593 mix. 2 Hen. VI, IV. x. 9 More than once, but for a Sallet, my Braine-pan well with a cleft was Bill Brown. R. ASHLEY married 1594th 113b Loys Le Roy, menheauily armed, salad, which couered their head, and Downe went up behind them. A1600 Floddan F. II. (1664) 12 Something of a stock may soon be a pie-shape for her to go. 1786 Grose ANC. Armour 11 The Salad, Salette, or concealed. Father Daniel describes a room on a kind of light helmet without a crest, sometimes with a supervisor, and sometimes without. Ant Meyrick 1824 Armour III. Glossy., Salette .. A head piece sometimes worn by the pilot light, but usuallyinfantry and archers. It 'was generally one .. steel cap resembles the Moor. Agincourt in 1844 James II. see 109 He made his bow to bear the armor and salads. 1888 STEVENSON Black Arrow 4 Armed with sword and spear, a steel head Salette, a leather jacket on his body.
b. jokingly referred to as a measure of wine.
1 Peter Heywood 1600. Edw. IV (1613) CJ, make an announcement .. E '.. Sack sold by Sallet.
c. Transfer. head helmet. nonce-use.
CB 1652 STAPYLTON Herodian 56 When Wine was drunk in his Sallat.
A second sort of pot metal. Obs.
Rolls 1472-3 Parlt. VI. 51 / 2 With fyere theym brought thider Salette. 1507-8 High Treasa Acc Id. Scot. IV. 101 points for GMN sellat ENA Mak vijs powde. 1582 J. Secr Hester. Phiorav. III. CXVI. 141 Seven same ace in a pot Berg lute Sallette iron and set to close.
Therefore saletted Others, wearing a helmet.
Coventry Leet Bk 1455 (EETS)282-Goode hundreds of men .. Bowes & Arrows with Jakked & saletted. 1461 J. Mash in P. Letter II. 36 The peple are jakkyd and saletted riottously and disposed of.
Arm
[AF arm, including the VAN. arm, dim. switch.]
A kind of helmet introduced in the mid 15th century, instead of steel helmets. It consists of an iron canopy spherical projection threw a big hole on the neck, and secured a front by the supervisor, Beveren,and throat. (Boutell.)
ADJUST May 1507 and June 87 in Hazlet. EPP II. 124 These measures do not save, even vambrace armyt. 1577 Review Holinshed. III. 853 / 1 Four Head Pieces armites called. Southey 1795 Jeanne d'Arc weeks. IX. 279 blows to the neck, the neck is not enclosed in a hurry, because it generates a raised arm on.
Burg Anet
Obs. Excl. Hist.
Even burguenet 6 (burgant) burgenet 6-7, 6-9 burg guessed, 9-bourginot goinette. For [. AF. Articles bourguignotte. F. BurgundyBurgundy.]
Others A very lightweight helmet or steel cap, for use by infantry, especially spades. b. a helmet with a visor that is mounted on a piece of the throat or neck, head collars can be changed without coverage.
[1598 Barret Theor. Warres Gloss. 249 Burgon, a French word that some form of group-peece, either on foot or horse couering head and the face and cheek.]
1563-1587 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1083 / 1 I was part of a man ~ foot draggingHe guessed his pike and Burg. Scot Holinshed 1570-1587. Review. (1806) II. He hit his head burguenet 255. 1592 Upst Greene. Justice. Wks. (Grosart) XI. 235 Battle of Burgants a Battleaxe to resist. 1611 SPEED Hist. GT. Brit. VIII. V. (1632) 407 on the head, put all the blame Burgenets. Southey 1796 Joan VII. A massive 296 Burgon .. Helming head. 1825 JH Wiffen rate VII. XC, The village sparkling guessed that the front wing. 1834 JR Planche Brit. 280 suit and a hat stormbourginot same period. 1852 D. Moir Tomb Bruce V. The living room is the goal and rust Burgon.
1606 Fig mix. Ant. E Cl. I. see 24 [Antonio] Demy The Atlas of this earth, the poor and Burg Anet by men.
Morion
Armour. Now hist.
[Cabasset
Obs. rare.
[Fr, dim .. And 'Caba Panier basket, etc.]
A small type of helmet.
1622 PEACHAM complete. Gentle. III. (1634) 150 Keyes, locks, buckles or cabassets Moor, helmets and the like. 1874Arms and Boutella Arm. ix. 162
Cointise
Arch.
[ME. (A = AF) through QUAINTISE. "Old-fashioned ornament device genius" as a special sense by modern writers on old clothes, novelists, historians, etc. (Some Dict cointoise an improperly formed ..)]
An elegant dress or imaginary, symbolic or decorative clothing, esp. Pendant head scarf worn dresses of the ladies, and has also worked at Knight-helmets of knights, as an "advantage". SeeQUAINTISE.
1834 JR Planche Brit. This is a custom 93 or quintis cointise, a name given to an unusually tight dress or tunic of the day. Ibid. 94 The scarf made by the crown of the helmet is known as cointise. 1843 James Forest Days (1847) 181 Salt cointises better known, was recently introduced.
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