单词 | grey amice |
释义 | > as lemmasgrey amice 1. A hood, cape, or similar garment made of or lined with grey fur and worn by a member of a religious order (esp. a canon). Frequently in grey amice. Also figurative.† amice work n. Obsolete perhaps: fabric or embroidery for such a garment.The exact garment has varied at different times in form and in mode of wearing, apparently being originally a cap or covering for the head, and afterwards a hood, or cape with a hood. N.E.D. (1884) notes: ‘In later times a mere college “hood” or badge borne by canons in France on the left arm’ (cf. hood n.1 2a).The more usual term is now almuce. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > items of attire > [noun] > amice amice1433 almuce1788 1433 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 49 (MED) Unam tuellam latam de amys werke. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 11 Amuce of an hare, almucium, habetur in horologio divine sapiencie. a1450 (?c1430) J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) (1931) l. 325 Al my richesse mai me not disporte Amys or [read of] gris..surplus & prebende. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cclxixv Hange vp the scapler: the amys cowle and frocke. a1529 J. Skelton Howe Douty Duke of Albany in Wks. (1568) sig. G.iiiv Those wordes his grace dyd saye Of an ammas gray. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 94 Iiij. prebenttes..in ther grey amos. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1802/2 The Prebendaries and petie Canons commaunded to weare no more their gray Amises. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 424 Morning fair Came forth with Pilgrim steps in amice gray. View more context for this quotation 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation x. 129 The three Bishops Elect in Copes, and the two Prebendaries in Grey Amices came forth of the Vestry unto the Table of Administration. 1897 J. W. Clark Observances Augustinian Priory at Barnwell, Cambr. p. lxxviii The amess or almuce or amys (almicia or almutium) which canons were allowed to wear on their heads, was originally a short cape, extending to the elbows, open in front. 1907 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Pyrenees iv. 59 The canons of Roncevaux wear a sleeveless surplice and a black amice over their shoulders in summer, but in winter a thick black cloak and a furred hood. 2007 S. Harper Music in Welsh Culture before 1650 ii. xiv. 252 Vicars were..enjoined to wear the appropriate surplice in choir (with black amice in winter). < as lemmas |
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