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strapul

  • noun [ masculine ]
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strapul, es; m.
A covering for the leg, kind of trouser
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  • Strapulas tubroces (tubrucus lanea ocrea, ocreis aut calceis coriaceis superimponi solita, Migne) vel brace, Wrt.

    Voc. i.

      25, 61.
Etymology
[A strapylle tibiale, Wrt. Voc. i. 259, col. 2 (15th cent.). Staple of a breche, strappyl femorale, feminale, Promp. Parv. 478. Þe strapils of breke tribraca, femoralia, Cath. Ang. 367. Sum wummon wereð þe brech of heare and þe strapeles adun to hire uet ilaced ful neste. A. R. 420, 5. Seide þat þey were liche to mares wiþ white legges up to þe þiȝes, for þat tyme þe Longobardes usede strapeles wiþ brode laces doun to þe sparlyver asserens eos fore similes equabus, quorum cruretenus pedes snnt albi, eo quod Longobardi tunc temporis usque ad suras candidis fasceolis uterentur, Trev. v. 355. 4.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “strapul.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/29116.

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