Definitions for liripipes

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liripipes lir·i·pipe

Spelling: [lir-ee-pahyp]

IPA: /ˈlɪr iˌpaɪp/

Liripipes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in liripipes (eiiilpprs).

Definitions for liripipes

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.
2. 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.

Origin of liripipes

First recorded in 1540-50, liripipe is from the Medieval Latin word liripipium, of obscure origin

Examples for liripipes

His hood is parti-coloured and jagged at the edge and round his face, and his liripipe is very long.

The hood is fixed on the right shoulder, and the band representing the liripipe is brought across the breast of the wearer.

There was the twist round the head, the cockscomb, the hanging piece of liripipe.

The simple folk wore a hood of linen, with a liripipe and wide ear-flaps.

Here a liripipe is extravagantly long; here a gold circlet decorates curled locks with matchless taste.

Lowest in rank are the surpliced choristers wearing hoods, with, in some instances, a liripipe depending from them behind.