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In the days of chivalry it was customary for knights to wear a lady’s glove in their helmets, and to defend it with their life.
“One ware on his headpiece his ladies sleve, and another bare on hys helme the glove of his dearlynge.”—Hall: Chronicle, Henry IV.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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