huke

English

Alternative forms

• huque, heuk, heuke, hyke

Etymology

From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h(j)uːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

huke (plural hukes)

1. (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke

   • 1930, “The real Joan of Arc: a manly maid - her appearance, her dress, her armour”, in The Illustrated London News:

     Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.

   • 1980, A. Ernestine Jones, The Trial of Joan of Arc:

     Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.

   • 2015 March 12, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti, Survey of Historic Costume, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 173:

     […] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke […]

Translations

medieval clothing

French: huque (fr) f German: Heuke (de) f

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• heuk, kueh

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /huke/ [hu.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /uke/ [u.ke]
• Rhymes: -uke, -e
• Hyphenation: hu‧ke

Verb

huke

1. Informal second-person singular (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.