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cyclas

cyclas noun: a long gown or surcoat, cut off at the front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.

Noun

cyclas

  1. A long gown or surcoat, cut off at the front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.
    • The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered...1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
    • The effigy of Sir John de Lyons (1346) at Warkworth, in Northamptonshire, shows slight further changes; a gambeson, a sleeved haketon, and a cyclas are worn.1995, Henry William Carless Davis, Francis Pierrepont Barnard, Medieval England
  2. An expensive material from which such gowns were made. It is unclear what the material was.

Origin of cyclas

Compare ciclatoun.

Questions about cyclas

What does cyclas mean?
Cyclas means a long gown or surcoat, cut off at the front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.
What part of speech is cyclas?
Cyclas is a noun.

Words near cyclas in the dictionary

  1. cyclandelate
  2. cyclane
  3. cyclanthaceous
  4. cyclarbamate
  5. cyclarthrosis
  6. cyclas
  7. cyclase
  8. cyclases
  9. cyclate
  10. cyclative
  11. cyclazocine

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