liripipe
/lir-ee-pahyp/US // ˈlɪr iˌpaɪp //UK // (ˈlɪrɪˌpaɪp) //
里尔管,里拉管,里皮
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a hood with a long, hanging peak, worn originally by medieval academics and later adopted for general wear in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- : a long strip or tail of fabric hanging from a garment or headdress, especially the peak of this hood or a streamer on a chaperon; tippet.
Examples
His hood is parti-coloured and jagged at the edge and round his face, and his liripipe is very long.
The long peak grew and grew into the preposterous liripipe which hung down the back from the head to the feet.
Here a liripipe is extravagantly long; here a gold circlet decorates curled locks with matchless taste.
The hood is fixed on the right shoulder, and the band representing the liripipe is brought across the breast of the wearer.
Lowest in rank are the surpliced choristers wearing hoods, with, in some instances, a liripipe depending from them behind.
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