Obs. Also 4 kape, 6 Sc. caip. Early form of COPE retained in north. dial. and Sc. Cf. ONF. cape.] A cloak with a hood; a cloak or mantle generally; an ecclesiastical cope.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 7782. A cniht mid his capen [1250 cope]. Ibid., 13097. He nom ane cape [1250 cloke] of his ane cnihte.

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c. 1320.  Seuyn Sages (W.), 3523. Thou sal be ful fayne For to hald my kapes sleue Whils I washe.

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1423.  James I., Kingis Q., III. viii. There saw I stand, in capis wyde and lang, A full grete nowmer, but thair hudis all.

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c. 1450.  Nominale, in Wr.-Wülcker, 721. Hec capa, a cape.

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c. 1520.  Treat. Galaunt (W. de W.), xxvii. So many capes as now be, & so few good preestes.

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1561.  in Inv. R. Wardr. Scotl. (1815), 156 (Jam.). Nyne peces of caippis, chasubles, and tunicles.

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