vernicle

Middle English

Noun

vernicle (plural vernicles)

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.

References

vernicle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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