† ˈcantel-cape, -cope Obs.
[Cf. F. chanteau ‘the quarter-piece of a garment, a cantle of cloth’ (ONF. cantel).]
A kind of cope or cape.
| a 1121 O.E. Chron. an. 1070 Mæsse hakeles and cantel-capas and reafes. [transl. Stevenson 1853, Mass-robes, and cantle-capes, and vestments.] c 1205 Lay. 29749 Godd clarc and wel idon, þa haueð his cantel-cape on. 1545 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 24 Payde for mendynge of iij. cantylcopes iijd. Ibid. 27 For mendynge of a cantilcop vd. |