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pelerines

pelerines is the plural of pelerine.

Meaning of pelerine

Noun

pelerine (plural pelerines)

  1. A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender).
    • […] Around his shoulders, he wore a thick gray pelerine. This was the custom of the knights of the Kingdom of the Spears, the land of the beaches and the chalk cliffs with great castles[…]2021 November 16, Clark Gillian, The Enchanted Deer and the Dreams of the Fool, Brave New Books, →ISBN
  2. A woman's tippet or cape with long ends coming down in front.
    • Pilgrims, male or female, wore gowns […] A hood was usually added, but even if that were omitted, the pilgrim wore a shoulder-cape, a custom so universal that this type of cape came to be called a "pelerine," a name still used in the nineteenth century to describe the short capes fashionable in...[1935, Lucy Barton, Historic Costume for the Stage, Baker's Plays, page 138

Questions about pelerines

What is pelerines the plural of?
Pelerines is the plural of pelerine.

Words near pelerines in the dictionary

  1. pelehouses
  2. Peleliu
  3. Peleng
  4. pelerin
  5. pelerine
  6. pelerines
  7. pelerins
  8. Pelethim
  9. Pelethite
  10. Pelethites
  11. peleton

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