mandilions

Noun

mandilion (plural mandilions)

1. A loose outer garment resembling a cassock or coat, often sleeveless, worn by soldiers over armour or by menservants as a type of overcoat.
   • You see likewise, that the lion, being the king of beasts; the horse, being the lustiest creature; the unicorn, whose horn is worth half a city; all these go with no more clothes on their backs, than what nature hath bestowed upon them: but your baboons, and your jackanapes, being the scum and...1609, T. Deckar (Thomas Dekker), The Guls Horne-booke, London: Imprinted at London [by Nicholas Okes] for R. S[ergier?]; republished as T. Decker; J[ohn] N[ott], The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum plena...