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sclavina

sclavina [Sclavus+-ina], sort of warm cloak, orig. assoc. w. Slavs or slaves (in quot. as worn by pilgrim). comes Hyrundella, recens a redditu Jerusalem ‥ pallam villosam quam ~am nominant velox abjecit Map NC V 6 f. 70; peregrinus portans palmam et indutus ~a (Tundalus) NLA II 302; venire videbant virum elegantem cursantem, de una †selauma [l. sclavina] alba vestitum. ‥ ‘jam adest ‥ peregrinus’ Knighton I 23; ~a est vestis peregrinorum, a sclavayne WW.

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