Etymology

manicle

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Today it means: On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet. Full definition →

Middle English manicle ← Old French manicle
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frommanicle“gauntlet; manacle”
  2. Middle English · inherited frommanicle
  3. English todaymanicle

From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle (“gauntlet; manacle”). Doublet of manacle and manicule.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishmanicle all →

manacles

Old Frenchmanicle all →

manaclesmanacle

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