volupeer

Middle English

Etymology

Compare envelop.

Noun

volupeer (plural ?)

A woman's cap.
- 1382, Chaucer, “v. 383”, in The Reeve's Tale‎:
  She wende the clerk hadde wered a volupeer, And with the staf she drow ay neer and neer
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Alternative forms

References

“volupere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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