1. Long, decorative streamers or tails attached to a hood or headdress, especially as worn in medieval and Renaissance fashion.
Usage: archaic; historical; plural form; singular is liripipe

Examples

• Medieval nobles wore hoods with long liripipes that draped elegantly down their backs.
• The liripipes on her headdress swayed as she walked through the castle hall.
• In 15th-century fashion, liripipes were a status symbol among the wealthy.
• The portrait shows a gentleman in a hood adorned with flowing liripipes.