volupeer
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare envelop.
Noun
[edit]volupeer (plural ?)
- A woman's cap.
- 1382, Chaucer, “v. 383”, in The Reeve's Tale[1]:
- She wende the clerk hadde wered a volupeer, And with the staf she drow ay neer and neer
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- “volupere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.