Zenobia's 'Vitremite,' or The Case of the Unidentified Headdress

Author / Editor
Gillmeister, Heiner.

Title
Zenobia's 'Vitremite,' or The Case of the Unidentified Headdress

Published
Poetica (Tokyo) 17 (1984): 22-26.

Description
Gillmeister explains "vitremite" as a combination of "uistre" (oyster) and "ermite" (hermit), a Chaucerian coinage for a kind of headwear the poet may have associated with monasteries.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.