cyclas

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noun

A long gown or surcoat, cut off at the front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.

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Meanings

noun
  1. A long gown or surcoat, cut off at the front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.

    The effigy of Sir John de Lyons (1346) at Warkworth, in Northamptonshire, shows slight further changes; a gambeson, a sleeved haketon, and a cyclas are worn.

    1995, Henry William Carless Davis, Francis Pierrepont Barnard, Medieval England
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    1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

  2. An expensive material from which such gowns were made. It is unclear what the material was.

Origin

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APA

cyclas. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyclas

MLA

“cyclas.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyclas. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyclas,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyclas.

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