1. A long, narrow tail or streamer of fabric attached to a hood or headdress, especially as worn in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Usage: archaic; historical

Examples

• Medieval nobles wore hoods with long liripipes that draped down their backs.
• The liripipe was a fashionable accessory in 15th-century Europe.
• In paintings from the Renaissance, you can see courtiers displaying elaborate liripipes as a sign of wealth and status.
• The hood's liripipe could be wound around the head or left to hang freely.