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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A Veronica. See

, 1.

[Obs.]

Piers Plowman.

vernicle

had he sowed upon his cap.

Chaucer.

vernicle ‎(plural vernicles)

(obsolete) A veronica (image of Jesus).
- c1386, Langland, “A-text”, in Piers Plowman:
  And þe vernicle bi-fore · for men schulde him knowe
- 1392, Chaucer, “Prologue 685”, in The Canterbury Tales^{[The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]}:
  A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. / His walet lay biforn him in his lappe.