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A relatively simple wool chaperon, with bourrelet, and cornette hanging forward. [1] The chaperon began before 1200 as a hood with a short cape, put on by pulling over the head, or fastening at the front. The hood could be pulled off the head to hang behind, leaving the short cape round the neck and shoulders.
Unlike the gowns and robes, these are based on the shape of the hood rather than the degrees for which they are worn. [f] full shape hoods are those that have a cape, a cowl and a liripipe. [s] simple shape hoods have only a cowl and a liripipe. [a] Aberdeen shape hoods have only a cape and a vestigial cowl.
An almuce was a hood-like shoulder cape worn as a choir vestment in the Middle Ages, especially in England. Initially, it was worn by the general population. [ 1 ] It found lasting use by certain canons regular , such as the white almutium worn on the arm by Premonstratensian canons.
A liripipe (/ ˈ l ɪ r ɪ ˌ p aɪ p /) [note 1] is an element of clothing, the tail of a hood or cloak, or a long-tailed hood. The modern-day liripipe appears on the hoods of academic dress . The hooded academic dress of King's College London , an example of a modern-day liripipe.
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Capes are often highly decorated with elaborate embroidery. Capes remain in regular use as rainwear in various military units and police forces, in France for example. A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth-century wars.
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