Synonyms for glove

Grammar : Noun

Spell : gluhv

Phonetic Transcription : glʌv

Définition of glove

Origin : Old English glof "glove, covering for the hand," also "palm of the hand," from Proto-Germanic *galofo (cf. Old Norse glofi), probably from *ga- collective prefix + *lofi "hand" (cf. Old Norse lofi, Middle English love, Gothic lofa "flat of the hand"), from PIE *lep- "be flat; palm, sole, shoulder blade" (cf. Russian lopata "shovel;" Lithuanian lopa "claw," lopeta "shovel, spade").
German Handschuh, the usual word for "glove," literally "hand-shoe" (Old High German hantscuoh; also Danish and Swedish hantsche) is represented by Old English Handscio (the name of one of Beowulf's companions, eaten by Grendel), but this is attested only as a proper name. To fit like a glove is first recorded 1771.

noun hand covering for warmth, protection

Example sentences :

I asked if the muff, as well as the glove, had been searched carefully.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

"Yes," answered Dorothy, buttoning her glove and glancing at the clock.
Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman

By the way, how did he get your glove, or is that merely brag on his part?
Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr

Yes, it is our business to do so; but the glove has not been of much assistance to us.
Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr

No one was observing him, and the glove was immediately concealed.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

All she did was to take her glove and rub hard at a spot on the window-pane.
Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf

Having mended her glove, Minnie Marsh lays it in the drawer.
Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf

There was no glove on it; and, gently raising it, he pressed it to his lips.
Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI » by Various

He paused, sighed and then brushed the subject away with a wave of his glove.
Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

On our part we staked all on chance; we threw the glove blindly to fortune.
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

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