para metritis (para metritis)

[NL., Specifically - (a) pl. Robes of state. Lordes in paramentz on here course res. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1643. (b) A cuff sewed upon the outside of a coat-sleeve and usually capable of being turned down over the hands, as was common toward the close of the seventeenth and in the early part of the eighteenth century. 2. The external face of a wall or any other constructed work. See perpend3. - Chamber of paramentst, the presence-chamber of a monarch. This Cambyuskan Ros fro his bord, ther that he sat ful hye; To forn him goth the loude minstralcye, Til he cam to his chambre of paramentz. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 261.