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† crinet Obs.
[dim. of F. crin hair: see -et1.]
1. A hair.
1572Gascoigne Flowers Wks. (1587) 67 The heeres were not of gold But of some other metall farre more fine Wher of ech crinet seemed to behold Like glistering wyars.
2. Hawking. (pl.) The small hair-like feathers which grow about the cere of a hawk. (Also written crinites; now called crines.)
1486Bk. St. Albans B j b, Ther be oon an hawke long smale blake federis like heris abowte the sere & thossame be calde Crinettis of y⊇ hawke. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. (1660) 223. 1792 Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 130/1 Crinets or Crinites, with falconers, small black feathers in hawks.
3. = crinière. (Cf. cranet1.)
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 336 Vpon any sadle, crinet, bard, chapperon, cooperison or other indument. |