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TUNIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tunic" is a kind of...):
cloak (a loose outer garment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tunic"):
chiton (a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece)
gymslip (a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform)
kameez (a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars))
kirtle (a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages)
surcoat (a tunic worn over a knight's armor)
tabard (a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
Synonyms:
adventitia; tunic; tunica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tunic" is a kind of...):
membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tunic"):
albuginea (whitish tunic)
Context examples:
Down the slanting road there was riding a big, burly man, clad in a tunic of purple velvet and driving a great black horse as hard as it could gallop.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Close to the corner of the chimney sat a middle-aged gleeman, clad in a faded garb of Norwich cloth, the tunic of which was so outgrown that it did not fasten at the neck and at the waist.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A deep-chested shout of delight burst from the archers at the sight of this double feat, and Aylward, dancing with joy, threw his arms round the old marksman and embraced him with such vigor that their mail tunics clanged again.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Trusses of straw had been thrown down along the walls, and reclining on them were some twenty or thirty archers, all of the Company, their steel caps and jacks thrown off, their tunics open and their great limbs sprawling upon the clay floor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In common garb, his masterful face and flashing eye would have marked him as one who was born to rule; but now, with his silken tunic powdered with golden fleurs-de-lis, his velvet mantle lined with the royal minever, and the lions of England stamped in silver upon his harness, none could fail to recognize the noble Edward, most warlike and powerful of all the long line of fighting monarchs who had ruled the Anglo-Norman race.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
