Glove

A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment which covers the hand. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Fingerless gloves with one large opening rather than individual openings for each fingers are sometimes called gauntlets. Glove which cover the entire hand but do not have separate finger openings or sheaths are called mittens.

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Gloves can serve to protect and comfort the hands of the wearer against cold or heat, physical damage by friction, abrasion or chemicals, and disease; or in turn to provide a guard for what a bare hand should not touch. Latex, nitrile or vinyl disposable gloves are often worn by healthcare professionals as hygiene and contamination protection measures. Police officers often wear them to work in crime scenes to prevent destroying evidence in the scene. Many criminals also wear these gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, which make the crime investigation more difficult.

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Fingerless gloves are useful for cold environments where dexterity is required that gloves would restrict. Cigarette smokers and church organists often use fingerless gloves. Some gloves include a gauntlet that extends partway up the arm.

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Gloves have been made of many materials including cloth, knitted or felted wool, leather, rubber, latex, neoprene and metal (as in chain mail).

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Today gloves are made around the world. Most expensive women's gloves are still made in France, with some made in Canada. For cheaper male gloves New York State, especially Gloversville, New York is still a world centre of glove manufacturing. More and more glove manufacturing is being done in east Asia, however.

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Middle English: Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken from around the 12th century to the 15th century centuries after the Norman invasion by in 1066 to the mid to late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, ...

Old English: Old English (Englisc, Anglisc, Ænglisc) or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. What survives through writing represents primarily th...

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Glove related Images and Photos (experimental)

Baseball Glove	Display Glove (Or "Salve") of Queen Marie-Antoinette	UFC Striker Glove	Lady with Glove c.1869
UFC Practice Glove	Freddy Krueger Glove	Digits - Conductive Glove Pins	Man with Glove
UFC Heavy Bag Glove	UFC Ultimate MMA Glove [Red and Black]	UFC Ultimate MMA Glove [Silver and Black]	UFC Official Fight Glove