Renaissance. For men, it was a coat reaching to the thighs or below the knee, with buttons all the way down the front and sometimes at the sleeves. Worn over a chemise. Sometimes a belt was worn at the hips and sometimes the belt moved up to the waist. This is what Crispin wears.
CRESSET an iron basket used for holding wood, coals, or oil, and lit for illumination, mounted on a post as a torch in a sconce, on feet, or suspended from a pole as a lantern.
DEGRADE when knighthood is taken from a man, usually because of treason or other crimes against the crown.
GARROTE a cord wound around a stick used to strangle.
HOUPPELANDE fourteenth-century upper-body outerwear with fashionably long sleeves that touched the ground. As fashion changed, so did the collar, growing in height.
LIRIPIPE the long tail on a hat or hood.
LISTS field for jousting.
MATINS, LAUDS canonical hours, about sunrise.
NEWGATE a city gate as well as a prison.
NONE canonical hour, three p.m.
PIPKIN small clay pot or drinking vessel.
POULAINES long, pointed-toed shoes.
PRIME one of the canonical hours, about six a.m.
RONDELLE HAT broad-brimmed cloth hat.
ROUELLE a circle used in heraldry, but also a round piece of yellow cloth sewn to the breast of a gown or tunic designating the wearer as a Jew.
SENNIGHT a period of seven days, a week.
SEXT canonical hour, midday.
SHRIVE/SHRIVEN to make confession in the penitential sense.
STEWS brothels.
TERCE canonical hour, about nine a.m.
VESPERS canonical hour, evening.
VILLEIN peasant.
WHELP young dog.
