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calyptra

calyptra, ~um [καλύπτρα] , hat, cap or mitre. b mane. †calestra, genus mitrae GlC C 191 (cf. Erf. 2. 273. 19: caleptra); 1390 de placito detenere j caliptre CourtR Ottery St. M. m. 58; 1439 pro caleptris †strameninis (Rationarium Omnium Animarum) Building in Eng. 81; caleptra, cappe WW; 1459 una caleptra nigra vocata a felton hatte Reg. Heref. 51; 1466 xviij caliptra [sive]bonettis CalPat 517; 1478 R. ‥ monacho, unum caleptrum Test. Ebor. III 244; a myter, caliendrum, caleptra, cidaris CathA; 1492 ne hujusmodi pilii et caleptra ultra et supra precium ij s. et viij d. ‥ venderentur Pat 572 m. 13.  b an horse mayne, caleptra, juba CathA.

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