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peplus, ~um [CL < πέπλος], ~a 1 piece of woven cloth or fabric; b (eccl., as cover for altar, statue, or sim.); c (as banner or pennon). lacero ‥ ~o, toslitenum webbe GlP 251; ipsa ‥ , in derisum Anglorum, cum ~a pulcerrima locum ubi lapis machinamenti tetigit murum castri extergebat, omnibus videntibus Plusc. IX 35.  b albanturque suis lustrata altaria peplis Frith. 452; 1220 hec sunt ornamenta ‥ duo panni linei ante altare ‥ magna ‥ penularia vestimentorum ‥ ~um sericum et vexillum de rubeo serico Reg. S. Osm. I 282; tria ~a ad Mariolam cooperiendam linea Ib. 291; 1222 ~um unum de serico rubeo ‥ ~a alba de serico v ‥ ~a iij linea ad ymagines ‥ offertorium unum de serico albo et alia v linea ‥ viij paria corporalium cum forellis v Ib. II 131; 1378 respondebant ‥ de ij s. v d. de j ~a serica de legato J. T. vendita Ac. Churchw. Glast. 94; 1436 ornamenta magni altaris ‥ sex sudoria cum duabus casulis ‥ unum ~um de serico pro episcopo ‥ unum napkyn pro domino episcopo Reg. Aberd. II 139.  c fraxineo nunc verberat aëra peplo J. Exon. BT VI 583. 2 cloak, robe; b (transf. & fig.); c (as accoutrement of Minerva, orig. the robe put on the statue of Athena at the Panathenaic Festival in Athens); d (eccl., of monastic habit). primitus in terra proprio de corpore peplum / ‥ produxi frondibus altis Aldh. Aen. 77 (Ficulnea) 4; 757 hanc miseram vitam ‥ vitiis superbie ‥ ceterisque quasi nigerrimo ~o contectam et sine lumine remansisse aeternae claritatis Bonif. Ep. 115; undique bissini comptus velamine pepli Wulf. Swith. I 10; in camino ‥ astitit, flammeas minas et fumea volumina ~o suo summovens W. Malm. GR III 286; 1300 j ~um cum tena pro iiij d. Rec. Leic. I 364; 1460 per solucionem factam ‥ pro ‥ octo ulnis tele late pro linthiaminibus et peblis ExchScot VII 36.  b armigeri dura cordis compagine fingor, / cujus et hirsuti extat circumstantia pepli Tatwine Aen. 30 (Ensis et vagina) 2; solque nitebit glorie singularis, / quem peplum noctis latere non recondet J. Howd. Cant. 218.  c falso ‥ Minerve ~o velavit Affroditem Map NC IV 11 f. 52v..  d monachi sacris ~is sua membra revincti J. Herd Hist. IV Regum 102. 3 head-dress, wimple, veil, kerchief (usu. worn by women); b (eccl., as head-dress of nun) veil, wimple. 11‥ hoc ~um, wimple WW Sup. 45; illi collatis viribus eam violentius arripiunt, ~oque capiti sublato brachia ‥ constringunt T. Mon. Will. VI 6; mulieres ‥ ~o candido et amplo, more Parthico, in coronam per gradus erecto capita velant Gir. DK I 11; nunc ~o [gl.: wimple] intemperiem aeris excipiat, nunc corrolla, nunc coracalla, vel crinali, vel reticulo comarum discurrentium libertatem refrenat Neckam Ut. 101; quidam homines usurpant sibi officia mulierum, qui vendunt ‥ ~a [gl.: G. wimple] et flammeola Garl. Dict. 129; mulier hec, que jam propinquante dominica ~a sua laverat Mir. Hen. VI III 109 p. 194.  b ut ignobiles nuptias respueret ‥ ~um sacrate professionis index gestavit W. Malm. GR V 418; in capite uti poteritis pepl[o] [ME: wimpelles] AncrR 171; decernimus ut moniales et cetere mulieres divino cultui dedicate velum vel ~um sericum non habeant, nec in velo acus argenteas vel aureas audeant deportare Lyndw. 205; hic ‥ ponitur ~um pro pannis lineis quos moniales gerunt sub mento Ib. 205bp; c1500 amicilium dicitur fascia capitis, sc. ~um, a bende or a fyllet, i mitra virginalis (Ortus Vocabulorum) CathA 27n. 7. 4 (bot.) wartwort, spurge (Euphorbia spp.). ~ox frutex est plena lacrima alba, folia minuta habet, sicut ruta sed laciora, omnis enim frutex communiter obrotunda est et in terram spansa, nascitur in ortis et inter vites Alph. 142; ~os ‥ is called in English of some wartwurt ‥ also pety spurge (Lyte Dodoens 363) OED s. v. spurge. 5 (conf w. pappus < πάππος =down on a seed) kind of thistle. ~um est nomen equivocum ad vittas mulierum, G. guynpel, et ad quoddam genus cardonis in cujus summitate nascuntur fila quasi folia subtilissima que qualibet levi impulsu volant per aera Alph. 142.

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