Sentence:  The old tunic, overtunic and <WSD>cyclas</WSD> were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A long gown or surcoat, cut off in front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.