liripipe
/ˈlɪrɪpaɪp/
noun
- A long tail or tippet attached to a hood or cap, especially as part of academic or medieval dress.
- In medieval paintings, scholars are often shown wearing hoods with a liripipe.
- The costume included a velvet cap with a long liripipe that reached his waist.
- The professor's gown had a liripipe hanging down the back.
- A hood or cap with such a tail, worn especially by academics or in historical costumes.
- The graduate wore a traditional liripipe during the ceremony.
- For the Renaissance fair, he bought a liripipe made of wool.
- The old portrait showed a doctor of divinity in a black liripipe.