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The Leine |
 | | The word “leine” can be and has been translated from the Gaelic as “shirt” as well as “tunic.” As the word “shirt” has connotations as an undergarment in Elizabethan times, and the leine was not an undergarment, we will use the term “tunic” here. |
 | | In another carving on the cross, a priest is shown in a long leine with a decorated hem, and a warrior with a belt worn outside his leine, which is drawn up to his knees. |
 | | And we also encounter, in the latter part of the 16th century, the leine that is open in front with the sides wrapped around, full sleeved, with a heavily pleated skirt coming down to the mid thigh. |
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