caligate

Definitions

Wearing caligae or military boots.

not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“These are Knightes in their offices, but not nobles, and are called knights Caligate of Armes, because they were startuppes to the middle legge.”

“If ſuch a one haue deſerued, by playing the part of a caligate knight, that is, a ſouldior on foote…to be aduanced to the order⟳ of knighthod by the sword: firſt, let⟳ him receiue of his Soueraigne ſome ſignes and tokens of honor, to ſet vpon his armor, and then hath he capacitie to receiue ſo great a dignity.”

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