cyclas

Compare ciclatoun.

cyclas

1. A long gown or surcoat, cut off at the front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.
   • 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

     The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

   • 1995, Henry William Carless Davis, Francis Pierrepont Barnard, Medieval England:

     The effigy of Sir John de Lyons (1346) at Warkworth, in Northamptonshire, shows slight further changes; a gambeson, a sleeved haketon, and a cyclas are worn.

2. An expensive material from which such gowns were made. It is unclear what the material was.

• “cyclas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek κυκλάς (kuklás).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈky.kɫas]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.klas]

cyclas f (genitive cyclatis); third declension

1. a circular, white or purple formal robe with a border

Third-declension noun.

• “cyclas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cyclas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers