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five tiny rooms where your fingers live separately yet plot together.
means Coverings for the hands, with separate sheaths for each finger, worn for warmth, protection, or style.
from From Old English 'glof,' meaning a covering for the hand, with roots in the older Germanic tongues — a cousin of Old Norse 'glofi.' Some scholars trace it further back to a prefix meaning 'together' plus a word related to 'palm' or 'hand,' as if the whole point were gathering the fingers under one roof, though that deeper history is far from certain.
- oldest pair
- Tutankhamun was buried with 27 linen gloves
- dueling code
- a thrown glove meant fight me, formally
- boxing irony
- gloves cause more brain damage than bare fists
- surgical first
- invented in 1890 to protect a nurse's hands
- O.J. trial
- a glove that didn't fit ended everything
boxing gloves — muhammad ali wore 10oz everlast gloves in his 1964 fight against sonny liston
work gloves — wells lamont leather work gloves have been manufactured since 1907 in milwaukee
surgical gloves — william halsted first used rubber surgical gloves at johns hopkins hospital in 1894