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liripipe

/lir-ee-pahyp/US // ˈlɪr iˌpaɪp //UK // (ˈlɪrɪˌpaɪp) //

里尔管,里拉管,里皮

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.