heuke

plural heukes

1. alternativeAlternative form of huke.

   Long ago I suggested that the heukes of scarlet cloth and camlet which we first hear of in England in the reign of Henry V., were cloaks similar to[…]

   2013 February 19, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 288

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   In the inventories of garments belonging to Henry the Fifth, we find one heuke of camlet, together with a chaperon of the same estimated at twenty-six shillings and six pence; and another heuke of scarlet by itself, prized at[…]

   1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 253

   The foreground of the painting is dominated by groups of women wearing heukes with flat caps and points (fig. 107). As noted above, at some point during the sixteenth century, a hooded form of the haik was developed which used[…]

   1996, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, For Modesty's Sake?, Tilburg University Press