vernicle

vernicle (plural vernicles)

1. veronica (image of Jesus).
   • c1386, Langland, “A-text”, in Piers Plowman‎^[1]:

     And þe vernicle bi-fore · for men schulde him knowe

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1392, Chaucer, “Prologue 685”, in The Canterbury Tales‎^{[The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]}:

     A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. / His walet lay biforn him in his lappe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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