Meaning of heuke | Babel Free

Examples

“In the inventories of garments belonging to Henry the Fifth, we find one heuke of camlet, together with a chaperon of the same estimated at twenty-six shillings and six pence; and another heuke of scarlet by itself, prized at[…]”

“The foreground of the painting is dominated by groups of women wearing heukes with flat caps and points (fig. 107). As noted above, at some point during the sixteenth century, a hooded form of the haik was developed which used[…]”

“Long ago I suggested that the heukes of scarlet cloth and camlet which we first hear of in England in the reign of Henry V., were cloaks similar to[…]”

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