Some obscure and unusual words come to light while looking back at the history of headgear. Having just finished reading The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester, HarperCollins 1998) on the implementation of the Oxford English Dictionary, I thought it might be fun to explore the definitions and etymology of some of the old conditions, including the Most for all but disappeared from modern. [I break this project into three or four parts, so stay tuned.]
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Petasus
Modules: 15 – petasus, 18 – Elysium.
[Tutulus
Archaeology.
[L. tutulus.]
A head-dress of Roman braid the hair in a cone worn on the forehead esp. Flemings and his wife.
1753 CHAMBERS Cycl. Supp., Tutulus, the Romans, a kind of dress the hair, picking up on the forehead in the form ofTorre … Tutulus also meant a wool hat with a peak level. 1816 J. Dallaway Statuary & Sculpt. vi. 321 The head cover is that the wife of a pontifex, .. tutulus or the hair is curled with a peak around the top of the head. 1891 Darkn Farrar. Dawn & XXVI Domizia Lepida which tutulus or conical head ~ dress, was the sole task of the slave-to decorate.
Pileus
[Wimple
[Late OE. Pennant = (M) LG. (M) Tu. Pennant, OHG. wimpal veil, banner(MHG, G. pennant banners, pennants), ON. vimpill (Sw, da. Vimpel from LG.), where OF. guimple (mod. Guimp F.), of which the variant wimple coincided with the native form. Ultimate origin uncertain.
It is unclear whether the senses provisionally placed together here and in VB. all belong to the same word. In branch II there may be an onomatopoeic IC, because education and the importance Rimple see dimples, rumple, wrimple.]
I. A suit of a linen or silk formerly worn by women,now as nuns to: wrap it in head to chin, sides of face and neck bent. Also in January a veil.
less than in the first rendering of glossaries anabole L. cyclase, tails, ricinum used cars.
A1100 Aldhelm Gloss. I. 4296 (Napier 112) Cyclades. I. hese, wimple. A1100 brilliance. in-Wr. Wülcker Ricinum 107/37, winpel ORL UEL. Ibid. 125 / 8 Anabol, winpel. C1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Rental winpel joke or Eleu midpoint of saffron. C1240 ANCR. R. 420 SEI Sum (Ms. C)Aet wummon to hit Limp cundeliche were strong en pennant. C1250 Meid. Maregrete XLVII, and half oru ih of Christ, they wid wempel I Hin-binding. 1297 R. Gloucester. (Rolls) 6941 Hire Bodi wi a coat, a pennant [VR whympel] question about rent heued. c1374 CHAUCER Troylus II Making a 110-Oure wimpil Woy & Schewe Oure face nude. c1386 Prol. 151 HIR wympul Ful semyly pynched era. 14 .. Voc. in-Wr. Wülcker 601/43 Peplum, a wynpul. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. IX. xxv. Hyre arayande Hayri wompyll in 2992.c1440 Gesta Rom LXIX. 317 The rent hydde emperesse face with a wympill, because Ben y Wolde-Knowe. 1513 DOUGLAS AENEIS I. vii. 115 to ask soft with Thaim Womple Ane Bair thai with us Handis betand breistis way. c1530 Crt. Love 1102 and yet the sisters and Vaile situation wimple. 1560 Bible (Genev.) Isa. iii. 22 constellations clothing and Vail and the Torah flags and crispy crab. 1805 SCOTT Minstr last. V. XVII, his Whimple was white, and the veil. 1819Ivanhoe xlii, his flowing black wimple cypress. 1879 Walford Londoniana II 247 Three nuns with veil and Whimple.
transf. 1615 Crooke body of the people 123 A Certain Veyle slippery or veil is subbed. 1861 A. AUSTIN Temple Bar III. 472 graves are the work of protection against the rain stops Life.
2. A flag, vane. [An alien mind.]
1656 Glossogr Blount., Wimple .. banners or flags.
II.3 A fold or wrinkle, one, wrap torsion or twist a tree or in a rippleStream.
1513 DOUGLAS AENEIS iv II. 30 Bot thai about him in orig wympillis lowpit [. spiris] raised. 1593 T. 74b Nashe Christ, no longer curious about a wimple or on the website in your dress, you're spotting and thorow Stay-ning your Spyrit Deere bought.
1818 HOGG Brownie Bodsbeck XII. I. 225 A Shepherd .. hates locks work, as he calls them, with a barrier. Ibid. xiv. II 22 He had left Mony as a "work in his curly tail like an eel. 1845 ELIZA I cook water, light waterWaters, .. The veil of sleep only lulleth the fish! 1878 STEVENSON Will o 'Mill, Parson's Marj. The river ran between the stepping stones with a pretty scarf.
4. A clever turn and turn a wile. Sc
1638 Sir A. JOHNSTON Diary (SHS) 320 Notwithstanding Wyler, the work of Locke, deals, movements, and Letts Uther. 1755 R. FORBES Ajax Sp The Gouden Helm look sae 24, 'skyrin Brinner, that' a Wi flash his work locks, will fan the 'brand that he expressed. 1818 SCOTT HRT.MIDL. XXIV, there is a veil in a central panel law firm.
So unless wimple Others, not wearing the veil.
a1225 ANCR. R. 420, if and leasing muwen Beon Kepper pennant, BEO bi hot.
Ventail
[A. OF. ventaille-tail Ventallo (mod.F. ventail OProv = masc. ventalha, trans. fan), F. vent wind, air. So also MHG. vin, finteile, vintale. A purely English variant is Aventail.
As the sense of "breathing spot" appears to be applicable as soon as possible the use of the word(See point 1) in French and English, the name was originally given in the piece of armor from a real or fancied resemblance to some of Sun articles other meanings of the DES. Word (and related forms Ventel, and ventail Vental) are fan, vane (a windmill), closed, shutter, leaf (of a folding door or picture). In DEI. Romance is the ventaille Freq. mentioned as a hedge of the heart or breast: cf Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1148th]
1. A piece of armor to protect 'mounted the neck, the helmet, a piece of the neck. Obs.
a1330 Roland & V. Its 863 ventail he gan vn-lace and smote in his and heued instead. 13 .. Guy varves. (A.) 92 His helmet was so wi Michel Second World War, the new man in ouer Comen t-fi hadd it on his ventayle. A1400 Sir Perc. In 1722, the poison is also Hitt Hym-Nekki and Thurg Vental pesan. C1400 Laud Troy Bk 14 375 were disperses the helmet on his ventayles. c1450 LOVELICH Grail XIV 33 Helmes, & hawberkes ventaylles also allgrownd him the edge going to run X.
A1400 Sqr. Lowe Degre 222 The base is nice to be your bryght burnysshed shalbe Ventallo dyght well be set by Golden Sun Drive
2. The bottom of the cabinet in front of a helmet visor, on the contrary, more recently, the entire moving part of the visor.
C1400 Right. Troy 7030 The Duke with Hym agayn DYNTEST Deritend ago on Viser & the voidet ventaile Hym. Anthurium C1400 Arth. XXXII, then its VPPE viserne auaylet agoits Ventallo. c1470 Gol. & Gaw. He vp 867 braidit his ventaill that Wes closit Clene. a1533 LD. BERNERS CXXIV Huon. 448 ventayle Vnder the helmets of its water terys she fell to its Eyen. 1590 Spenser FQ III. ii. 24 light through its ventayle .. His manly face .. lookt foorth. 1600 FAIRFAX Tasso VI. XXVI, vp Ventallo He only here that he descride your beautiful face, her pride and beauty. 1802 JAMES Milit. Dict., Ventail to lift part of a helmet is made. 1865 JK SIRRate JAMES XX. XII, ventayle by requiring her face glowed red features. [1869 Boutell Arms & Armour viii. 127 This piece, called mesail or mursail, .. but generally known in England as ventaile visor, was pierced or move for both eyes and breathing.] 1906, p. HEATH portraits in Dorset 10 Some ~ times with a 'ventaille "or visor.
b. One of the openings or vents for it. Obs. 1
1470-1485 Arthur Malory X. lx. 516 oute of blood Brast ventaylstheir helmets.
3. Something like a sail or fans. Obs.
Clout Col. Skelton a1529 400 [the nuns] must cast vp theyr Blacke Bayle, and set vp theyr Fuck Sayles to do with their Wynde Vental.
Sallet
Antiq
[AF salad ads. Sp Celada or IT. Which are believed hidden L. Cael ta (sc. cassis or galea), (helmet), decorated with engravings. See MDU. salad, salads, Salla.
The L. reg. was found in this elliptical use. See"Lorica Aenea galeæque, cælatæ works Corinthia" (Cicero).]
1. In medieval armor, a lightweight hat globular clusters, with or without sight and without hood, sweeping the lower back outside.
c1440 Eng Conq. IReL. iv. 11 (Ms. Rawl.) Wel Ham-Selfe with Salletis Haubergeon wepenyd and bryght and sheldys. 1465 MARG. Paston in P. Lett. Imprimis II 189, a one Peyre brygandyrs Salet, a boresper [etc.]. 1480 Caxton Chron. Cclv Ing. (1482)331 He toke syr vmfreys salad and its brigantyns .. and its spores and GylT arayd Hym Lyke a gentleman. c1537 Thersytes 55, I have a Schaller Wolde on my hed, to be under my CHYN with a red Thong Buckeled. 1585 T. Washington Nicholay TR Voy. IV XXVIII. 146B, on their heads [they] hadd Sallet leather. 1593 trembles. 2 Hen. VI, IV x. 9. More than once, but for a Sallet had my good Braine-pan with a column Bill Brown. 1594 R. ASHLEY tr Loys Le Roy 113, men wereheauily armed had a salad that his head was couered and Downe, in the shoulders. A1600 can Floddan F. II. (1664) 12 Some of the actions to make a quick Sallat to save his head. 1786 Grose Anc. The 11 Armour, Salet Salade or Celat. Father Daniel Salet defines a helmet to be a kind of light, without a crest, sometimes with a visor, and since sometimes without. 1824 Meyrick Ant Armour III. Gloss., Lounge, .. a light head piece sometimes worn by the cavalry, butgenerally by the infantry and archers. E 'was generally .. a steel plug is very similar to Morian. Agincourt 1844 JAMES II. v. 109 he had put the archers with the armor and salads. 1888 STEVENSON Black Arrow 4 with sword and spear, a steel arm Salet on the head, a pinch of skin on his body.
b. jokingly referred to as a measure of wine.
Heywood first 1600 Pt Edw. IV (1613) Cj, Making an announcement .. L '.. Bags are sold by Sallet.
c. transf. Headgear, head.Nonce use.
1652 CB 56 Stapylton Herodian when wine was taken in its Sallat drunk.
2. Any type of vessel of iron. Obs.
Rolls 1472-3 Parlt. VI. took 51 / 2 thid with Fyer with theym in Salette. Acc. 1507-8 Ld High Treas. Scot. 101 Article IV, for the MAK-ane vijs GWN sellat powd. 1582 J. Secr Hester. Phiorav. III. CXVI. 141 Seven potte the same in a Sallette iron, and lute together to close.
Therefore saletted Others, dressed in a Schaller.
1455 Coventry Leet Bk (EETS) 282 Hundred Good Men .. with Bowes & AROW, Jakked & saletted. 1461 J. Paston in P. Lett. II 36 The peple was jakkyd and saletted riottously and organized.
Armet
[AF Armet, also in OF. Armetta, dim. the poor.]
A kind of helmet introduced in mid-15th century, instead of the pelvis. It was a globular iron cap, spreading with a large hollowed projection on the neck and protected by> Visor, beaver, and gorget. (Boutell.)
Justes May 1507 and June 87 in Hazle. EPP II 124 Cors armyt not spared, nor stick his arm. 1577 Holinshed Chron. III. 853 / 1 Fouré headgear called Amrita. Southey 1795 Jeanne d'Arc WW. IX. 279 struck on the neck, the neck is not closed, because he had woken up in a hurry to launch a Armet.
Burganet
Obs. Exc. Hist.
Even burguenet 6 (burgant) burgenet 6-7, 6-9 9-burganet bourginot goinette. [Ad. OF. bourguignotte, ext. f.Bourgogne Burgundy.]
a. A very light steel helmet or cap, for the use of infantry, especially spades. b. A helmet with visor, which are set so that the collar or neck ring pieces, the head of the neck may get less.
[1598 Barret Theor. Warres Gloss. 249 Burgundy, a word of French, is a sort of head-Certain Peece both Foote and Knight couering the head and the face and Cheek.]
1563-1587 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1083 / 1 are in a state '~ Foot dragging the man burganet after him his pike. 1570-1587 Scot Holinshed. Chronicles (1806) II 255 burguenet His shot in the head. 1592 GREENE Upst. Court. WW. (Grosart) XI. 235 to resist Burgants with a ax. 1611 SPEED Hist. Gt. Brit. VIII wore V. (1632) 407 On his head are all guilty Burgenets. 1796 VII Joan Southey 296 A Burgundy Massy .. Rudder head. 1825 JH Wiffen rate XC VII, the burganet shimmering veils the forehead. 1834 Brit JR Planche.280 A Hood Costume and bourginot same period. 1852 D. Moir Tomb de Bruce V, in the room hung the target and the rust Burgundy.
Fig trembles 1606th Ant & Cl. I. v. 24 [Antonio] Demy The Atlas of this earth, arms and Burganet men.
Morion
Armour. Now versions.
[Cabasset
Obs. rare.
[Fr;. Size Cabas basketball, basket, etc.]
A kind of helmet small.
1622 Peaches Compl. Gentle. III. (1634) 150 Keyes, Locke, buckles, or cabassets Morian,Helmets and the like. 1,874 weapons Boutell & Arm. ix. 162.
Cointise
Arch.
[A ME. (= Of the.) (Cointoise Some dicts. Having a bad impression.) Form QUAINTISE "quaint device, ingenious ornament," appropriate for a particular sense of modern writers on ancient costume, historical novelists, etc.]
An elegant clothes or fancy dress, symbolic or decorative, esp. supporters scarf on the clothes women wore head, and the tournament as a rider attached to helmetsa "favor". See QUAINTISE.
1834 Brit JR Planche. Costume 93 This is a Quintis or cointise called a term for a specially adapted or tunic dress of the day. Ibid. The scarf worn round 94 after the crest of the helmet is a cointise was called. 1843 JAMES Forest Days (1847) 181 The beautiful scarves, called cointises then recently introduced.
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