Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ladies may wear a long (over the shoulders or to ankles) cloak usually called a cape, or a full-length cloak. Gentlemen wear an ankle-length or full-length cloak. Formal cloaks often have expensive, colored linings and trimmings such as silk, satin, velvet and fur. The term was the title of a 1942 operatic comedy. [12]
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. Rich noblemen and elite warriors of the Aztec Empire would wear a tilmàtli ; a Mesoamerican cloak/cape used as a symbol of their upper status.
The epitoge is descended from the chaperon, a mediaeval hat that descended from a cloak with a hood with the head tucked into the opening of the cowl, so that the long tail or liripipe and the abbreviated cape hung at opposite sides of the head (wearer's right and wearer's left respectively).
The nickname was acquired after the team managed several nail-biting victories. [17] New Zealand: Men's: Black Caps [18] [19] Based on the New Zealand rugby union team's All Black nickname, the official nickname was chosen after a 1998 open competition. [18] Kiwis [20] The Kiwi is a bird native to New Zealand. Women's: White Ferns [19]
Some of the many variations of ermine spots found in heraldry over the centuries Ermine fur, from the robes of Peter I of Serbia. Ermine (/ ˈ ɜːr m ɪ n /) in heraldry is a fur, a type of tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail).
The Caps Lock key on a PC keyboard with US keyboard layout (near upper-left corner, below the Tab key and above the left Shift key) Caps Lock (⇪ Caps Lock) is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters. It is a toggle key: each press reverses the previous action. Some ...
The Medieval period in England is usually classified as the time between the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance, roughly the years AD 410–1485.. For various peoples living in England, the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Danes, Normans and Britons, clothing in the medieval era differed widely for men and women as well as for different classes in the social hierar
Arakhchin, traditionally worn by men and women of the South Caucasus; Beanie (seamed cap) Biretta, forming part of some clerical, academic or legal dress; Calotte (Belgium), a skullcap worn by students at Catholic universities in Belgium