heuke
English
Noun
heuke (plural heukes)
- Alternative form of huke
- 1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 253:
- In the inventories of garments belonging to Henry the Fifth, we find one heuke of camlet, together with a chaperon of the same estimated at twenty-six shillings and six pence; and another heuke of scarlet by itself, prized at […]
- 1996, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, For Modesty's Sake?, Tilburg University Press:
- The foreground of the painting is dominated by groups of women wearing heukes with flat caps and points (fig. 107). As noted above, at some point during the sixteenth century, a hooded form of the haik was developed which used […]
- 2013 February 19, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 288:
- Long ago I suggested that the heukes of scarlet cloth and camlet which we first hear of in England in the reign of Henry V., were cloaks similar to […]