vernicle

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Middle English

Noun

vernicle (plural vernicles)

veronica (image of Jesus).
- c1386, Langland, “A-text”, in Piers Plowman‎:
  And þe vernicle bi-fore · for men schulde him knowe
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- 1392, Chaucer, “Prologue 685”, in The Canterbury Tales‎:
  A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. / His walet lay biforn him in his lappe.
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References

“vernicle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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