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hálig-rift

  • noun [ feminine ]
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hálig-rift, -reft, -ryft, e; f.
A holy garment, veil.
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  • Háligryft

    theristrum,

      Hpt. Gl. 525.
  • Hió an hyre betsþ háliryft

    she gives her best veil,

      Th. Chart. 538, 7.
  • Heó ðǽr háligryfte onféng

    accepto velamine sanctimonialis habitus,

      Bd. 4, 19; S. 587, 42: Shrn. 94, 25: Lchdm. iii. 430, 26.
  • Sca hylda wæs xxxiii geára on lǽwedum háde and xxxiii geára under háligryfte

    St. Hilda was for thirty-three years in the world and for thirty-three years in the cloister,

      Shrn. 149, 5.
  • Effigenia is ðæs Heofenlícan Cynges brýd and mid háligrefte gehálgod

    Effigenia is the bride of the Heavenly King, and hallowed with the veil,

      Homl. Th. ii. 476, 32.
  • Mathéus léde háligreft ofer hire heáfod

    Matthew placed a veil on her head,

      478, 5.
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  • hálig-rift, n.