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1) In the Middle Ages the pendant streamer hanging from the elbow-length sleeve of the tunic or gown. The term was also sometimes applied to the liripipe (see Liripipc).

2) A woman's shoulder cape, most generally of fur, fashionable from the seventeenth century onwards.

		© Ragnar Torfason 2005 January 28