Meanings
- historicalobsoletepluralplural onlyA sort of men's breeches
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The old tunic, over-tunic, and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cote-hardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines, and many other wondrous garments, party-coloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the king.
1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the King Greeted His Seneschal of Calais”, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC, page 115
Origin
- Middle Englishhaynselyns
- Englishhanselines
From Middle English haynselyns.
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