We cannot help thinking that Mr. Calthrop's derivation of the cockade is more feasible, though it is not easy to see the remains of the coiled-up liripipe of the chaperon in the way which Mr. Calthrop represents it in his sketch.
This represents, of course, the liripipe of the chaperon.
It appears to me that the liripipe (evidently then worn) is in this case twisted around the head.
Notice the great length of liripipe on the man's hood, also his short tunic of rayed cloth, his hanging sleeve and his under-sleeve.
Again this was to be simplified: the twist made into a smooth roll, the skull to be covered by an ordinary cap attached to the roll, the cockscomb converted into a plain piece of cloth or silk, the liripipe to become broader.
The long peak grew and grew into the preposterous liripipe which hung down the back from the head to the feet.
His hood is parti-coloured and jagged at the edge and round his face, and his liripipe is very long.
Here a liripipe is extravagantly long; here a gold circlet decorates curled locks with matchless taste.
The French hood with a short liripipe was worn by country ladies; this covered the hair, showing nothing but a neat parting in front.
The simple folk wore a hood of linen, with a liripipe and wide ear-flaps.
In the 15th century the effect is produced with a thick, turban-like roll of stuff from the top of which hung down on one side folds of cloth coming nigh to the shoulder, and on the other the liripipe broadened and lengthened to 4 or 5 ft.
The man on the left has a pink short gown, trimmed with white fur; his hat, the two ends of a liripipe hanging over his shoulders, and his purse and his hose, are black.
The priest is habited in a robe of purple, with a black cap and a black liripipe attached to it, brought over the shoulder to the front, and falling over the arm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liripipe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
