volupere
English
Etymology
Compare envelop.
Noun
volupere (plural voluperes)
- (obsolete) 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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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for volupere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)