† lyfkie Obs.
Also 6 leefekye.
[a. Du. lijfken ‘corpusculum, subucula, exomis’ (Kilian), dim. of lijf body; cf. G. leibchen.]
A bodice.
| 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 116 Their spots, their lawnes, their leefekyes, their ruffes, their rings: Shew them rather Cardinalls curtisans, then modest Matrons. 1609 T. Cocks Diary (1901) 73 W'th iij li before delivered her for my wives gowne and lyfkie. |