manicle

English

Etymology

Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle (“gauntlet; manacle”).

Noun

manicle (plural manicles)

1. On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet.
   • 2000, Lancelot of the Lake, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 429:

     [Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath.
     gauntlets: strictly speaking, manicles would in this case be chainmail mittens.

   • 2007 06, E. H. Ruck, An Index of Themes and Motifs in Twelfth-Century French Arthurian Poetry, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 157:

     The sergents, in place of the hauberk, wore a smaller hauberk called a haubergeon without manicles - the attached mail glove - an iron cap in place of the helmet, and nail leggings without foot-protectors (see Contanine, p.69).

2. Obsolete form of manacle.
   • 2014 February 7, James Everett Kibler, Jr., David Moltke-Hansen, William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN:

     One implication of “deliverance” is release from the bondage of the mind, nicely summed up by William Blake's “mindforg'd manicles” (102). When the mind is unaware of its enslavement, emancipation is impossible.

French

Noun

manicle f (plural manicles)

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2. manicle

References

• “manicle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.