volupeer

Middle English

Etymology

Compare envelop.

Noun

volupeer (plural ?)

  1. A woman's cap.
    • 1382, Chaucer, “v. 383”, in The Reeve's Tale‎[1]:
      She wende the clerk hadde wered a volupeer, And with the staf she drow ay neer and neer
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