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Birrus vs Cirrus - What's the difference?

birrus | cirrus |

As nouns the difference between birrus and cirrus

is that birrus is a coarse kind of thick woollen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages while cirrus is a tendril.

birrus

English

Noun

(es)
  • A coarse kind of thick woollen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages.
  • A woollen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or head.
    • (Webster 1913)

    cirrus

    English

    (cirrus cloud)

    Noun

    (cirri)
  • (botany) A tendril.
  • (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
  • (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.
  • * 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 15:
    • The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.