Obs. Forms: 4–5 voluper(e, 5 -peer, 6 veluper; 5 voly-, volipere, voly-, wolyper, wulpere. [a. AF. volupier (Gower), f. OF. voluper (voleper, veloper, etc.), to wrap up: see ENVELOP v. OF. envelopeur occurs (in 1361) in a similar sense.] A form of head-dress worn especially by women; a kerchief.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 55. The tapes of her white voluper Were of the same suyte of hir coler. Ibid., Reeve’s T., 383. Whan she gan the white thyng espye, She wende the clerk hadde wered a volupeer.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 569. Calamandrum, a volupere.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 512/1. Volypere, kerche, teristrum, caliendrum.
c. 1475. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 776/27. Hoc caliandrum, a wulpere.
1483. Cath. Angl., 404/1. A volyper, caliendum.
1552. in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911), 404. For a hede lace and veluper for Mris. Margarett … xij d.
