heuke

English

Noun

heuke (plural heukes)

1. Alternative form of huke
   • 1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 253:

     In the inventories of garments belonging to Henry the Fifth, we find one heuke of camlet, together with a chaperon of the same estimated at twenty-six shillings and six pence; and another heuke of scarlet by itself, prized at […]

   • 1996, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, For Modesty's Sake?, Tilburg University Press:

     The foreground of the painting is dominated by groups of women wearing heukes with flat caps and points (fig. 107). As noted above, at some point during the sixteenth century, a hooded form of the haik was developed which used […]

   • 2013 February 19, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 288:

     Long ago I suggested that the heukes of scarlet cloth and camlet which we first hear of in England in the reign of Henry V., were cloaks similar to […]