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Tunykill, n. Also: tun(n)-, twn-, ton-, tynn-, tenn- and -yk(k)ill, -ykkle, -ykle, -ycle, -ycale, -ycail, -ikill, -icall, -icle, -ickle, -akil(l, -akyl, -akell, -acle, -ekill, -ekle, -ecle. [ME and e.m.E. tunicle (1377), tunycle (Trevisa), tonacle (a1400-50), tunakyl (15th c.), tenucle (1495), OF tunikle, L. tunicula.]

1. An ecclesiastical vestment.For further details see Ronald G. Cant The College of St. Salvator (1950) 120-126. 1291 Acts I 112 (red).]
[Indentura de munimentis captis in thesauraria de Edinburgh … Tunicla & dalmatica de rubeo samito … vna tunicla & vna dalmatica de beaudekyn 1362 Coldingham Priory xl.]
[In primis tres capae, iiij casulae, ij tunnykklys(a) c1420 Wynt. ix 595.
A prestis vestment hale, Wyth twnykill [pr. twynkill; C. tunakyl] and dalmatyk [etc.] 1501 Kennedy Aberd. Ann. II 332.
Two white tunicles and garments 1501 Treas. Acc. II 64.
For making of ane vestiment and ane tunnycale of grene damas xx s. 1502 Treas. Acc. II 288.
To the woman that maid the frenȝeis for tunycales … x s. 1504 Treas. Acc. II 292.
To the said Nannik to mak the collaris and sleffis for the said tunycales … for tua steik rede bukram to lyne the tunycales 1505 Treas. Acc. III 79.
For viij elne satin to be tua tunycales for the Gray Freris; … maid for thaim, tua tunycales of quhit dames, … the remanent of the tua tunycales of the kingis dames 1506 Treas. Acc. III 80.
For iiij unce silk to the blak tunycales, to thair knoppes, xiiij s. … for xxiiij elne grene Birge satin, quhilk wes ane caip, tua tunycales, and ane cheseb to the Freris of Drumfreis 1506 Treas. Acc. III 81.
Tunycail 1527 Aberd. B. Rec. I 119.
Tunnekillis 1527 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. II 360.
Tunnakillis 1541 Linlithgow B. Ct. 20 Dec.
Twnyklis c1547 Echt-Forbes Chart. 205.
ij tunykkillis vith thar albis 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 64.
Twa tunykillis, with abbis, stolis, fannonis, and paralyngis referand thareto 1559 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I lxxxix.
Tunickles 1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III 44.
Twneclis 1561 Paterson Ayr & Wigton III 428.
Tunikillis(b) c1454 Dundee B. Ct. I 3a.
A stand of vestiment of a clath of gold with tonakillis albis & the lafe pertenand thair to … a vestiment … with the tonakill and ane ald cape pertenand thair to(c) 1552 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 618.
Twa tynnaclis of blak velvot 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II 359.
Tynnakellis(d) 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 188.
Tennikillis 1559 Fam. Rose 227.
Ane tennakill off reid damas

2. Translating F. tunicle: A small tunic. ?1438 Alex. ii 6097.
Ane knaif saw he, weill cled and gent, In tunicall [F. tunicle] of ane camell rede

3. A garment in the style of an ecclesiastical tunicle, a (? sleeved) over-garment. 1455 Acts II 43/2.
That all men of lawe that ar forspekaris … haif habitis of grene of the fassone of ane tunykill and the slevis to be opyn as a tabart 1494 Deidis of Armorie 17.
Heireftir followis the significacioun of cottis of armes, the quhilkis in thar propir names suld be callit tuneklis for thai ar maid or suld be of that fassioun and in the sammyn name of the dekinnis vestement that he sais the ewangelis in … it is blasonyt in thre maneris: in cot of armes, in twnicles, and in verite 1494 Loutfut MS 50b.
And quhar euer thai four [sc. saints] before nemmyt ar put in paynture thai ar or suld be cled with tunycles quhilk signifies cote of armez 1539–40 Treas. Acc. VII 293.
For stuff, and broudering of lxiiij pece of crounis, names, and thrissillis set upoun twa tynnakillis of tanny velvet quhilk wes the lynyng of ane goun of claith of gold of the kingis … For vj elnis bukrem to lyne the saidis tynnakillis … For stuff and brodering of iiij armes to the saidis tynnykillis and vestment … For half ane unce of sewing silk till sew on the rubennis upoun the saidis tynnikillis and vestment