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lace 1

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Searchable Lemmata: lace (AF), las (ME), lacea (L), laceus (L), lása (Ir), lace (OScots), lace (MdE).
Alternate Forms: lac, lach, lacis, lacz, lais, las, lasce, lascez, lase, lasse, latz, laz, lece, lesse, lose.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a1(n.) Accessory; cord, band, string or similar, used to tie together the two edges of a garment, armour plates, etc., or used to stitch items of clothing or armour together. In later (primarily ME) uses: a lacing, point, tie: a narrow strip of textile, leather or a ribbon, often finished with a tab or aglet; originally used to fasten together parts of costumes; later tied in bows and used for trimming. [Only senses dealing with cloth and clothing are attested here and in the senses following; there is some overlap between the senses.](ante 1150 still in current use)
1. Il la receit entre ses braz, De sun bliaut trenche les laz Poetic, Romance. [AND MARIE (Guigemar 738) 1155/1189]
2. Par si grant air le feri Que li laz del helme rumpi Heroic, Poetic. lace on helmet -- cf. sense 1a3 below [AND Proth ANTS (7204) circa 1185]
3. [2948] ... Ele ot un blialt freselé Par les braz e par les costez ... [2951] ... Unc si bels cors ne fu furmez; La char parmi les laz pareit, Qui plus blanche que nef esteit [AND Proth ANTS (2948-2951) circa 1185]
4. pro laciis (v. attachia); lx s. de j lecto quo dominus communiter utebatur cum lecis, pilleis, cuffis, calligis et sotularibus assignatis camerario Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Exec. Ep. Exon. (6) 1220]
5. [390] ... Ly secund milliers est tout vestiz des draps diaprés de soie vermaille as overaignes d'o ... [401] ... il ouste sa galahoth qe siet sur sa teste en guyse d’un chapeau de feutre, qe est fait d’or et des pierres preciouses et de grosses perles, et est si riche qe homme le priseroit bien une roialme en ceo pays' ... [405] ... [...] et sont lour draps fenduz a cousté et fermé a laces (ed. lacés) de soie [AND Mandeville (390-405) circa 1360]
6. He cloþede þe bischoop wiþ alynnen sherte ... & putte aboue þe cope, þe which streynynge wiþ alaas [L cingulo], Ioynede hit to þe brest broch Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Bod 959) Lev.8.8) ante 1382]
7. [88/13] ... Jacobo Fauconere ... pro tieldes per ipsum emptis ... ad cariandum les haukes ... [90/14] ... Et per manus eiusdem a brawederere pro j manche, pro frenges et laces pro vsu domini ... viij marc. ... [90/28] ... Per manus eiusdem pro serico albo et blodeo, vz. xvj node Accounts. [MED Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52 (88-90) 1391]
AF, Ir, L, ME, MdE, OScots; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1a2(n.) Accessory; specifically, a cord, band, string or similar, used to tie round something, such as (below) a headband or fillet.(circa 1400)
1. Þe pleitis of wommen heer ben I-knytt & I-bounde wiþ laces þat hatten discriminalia in latyn ... Wommen here is I-delid & I-sched & I-pleited & I-bounde with lacys [MED *Trev.Barth. ((Add 27944) 66b/b) ante 1389]
ME, MdE; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1a3(n.) Accessory; specifically, a cord or tie used to suspend something from the person (such as a hat, purse, baldric, etc.) [Also cf. many of the attestations above, such as AND Proth ANTS 7204, or DMLBS Ac. Exec. Ep. Exon. 6, for example].(ante 1150 still in current use)
1. [3434] ... Al brant d’acer l’en trenchet .v. des laz (of his opponent's helmet) ... [3435] ... Li capelers un dener ne li valt ... [3436] ... De sun osberc les dous pans li desaffret Heroic, Romance. [AND Roland (3434-3436) circa 1125/1150]
2. A shipman ... He rood vpon a rouncy as he kouthe, In a gowne of faldyng to the knee. A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he Aboute his nekke vnder his arm adoun ... Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.Prol. ((Manly-Rickert) A.391-392) circa 1390]
3. [566] ... A male twyfold [vr. twifolde; Elsm: tweyfoold] on his croper lay; It semed þat he caryed lytel aray ... [571] ... His cloke was sowed to his hood ... [574] ... His hat heeng at his bak doun by a laas ... [633] ... His ouersloppe [vrr. ouerslope, ouersclope, ouer slop; ouer clothe] nys nat worth a myte ... It is al baudy and to tore also Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.CY. ((Manly-Rickert) G.566-633) circa 1395]
4. A crucifix hanged wt a lace of golde Accounts. [MED Invent.Randolf in Archaeol.61 (171) ante 1430]
5. We enioyne yowe ... that ye use no lases a bowte your nekkes wythe crucyfixes or rynges hangyng by thayme ... that none of yow, the prioresse ne none of the couente, were no vayles of sylke ... herneysed ... ne that none of yow vse no lased kyrtels Ecclesiastic/Regula. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Visit.Alnwick (8-8b) 1441]
AF, L, ME, MdE; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1a4(n.) Accessory; specifically, a cord, band, strap or similar, used as a girdle, baldric or belt.(circa 1450 ?)
1. [1830] ... `I schal gif yow my girdel, þat gaynes yow lasse.' Ho la3t a lace ly3tly þat leke vmbe hir sydez, Knit vpon hir kyrtel vnder þe clere mantyle ... [1833] ... Gered hit [the girdle] watz with grene sylke ... around brayden ... [1846] ... 'Now forsake 3e þis silke?' sayde þe burde þenne Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work c1390?) [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 1830-1846) circa 1400]
2. Semicyctorium: a sink or a lace Gloss. [MED *Medulla ((Stnh A.1.10) 59a/b) ante 1425]
3. [70b] ... A lace: Baltheus ... [71a] ... A laste of A sowter: formula, formella, formipedia, galla, equitibiale pro ocreis ... [71b] ... A lawnderer: Candidaria, lotrix Lexicon. (dating uncertain) [MED *Cath.Angl. ((Add 15562) 70b-71a-b) circa 1475]
c.f.: balteus, semicinctorium
ME; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.) Accessory; brooch, clasp; button -- used to render L fibula.(circa 1384 - ante 1600)
1. He sente to hym a golden lase [WB(2): lace; L fibulam], or nouche, as custume is for to be 3ouen to cosyns of kyngus Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Dc 369(2)) 1 Mac.10.89) circa 1384]
2. [27b/b] ... Fibula: boton, or a lace, or a tache ... Fibulo: to botenen or lacen ... [28a] ... Fimbreo: to himnen ... [28b] ... Formella: a souteres last Gloss. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED *Medulla ((Stnh A.1.10) 27b/b-28b) ante 1425]
3. [282] ... Labelle: Labellum ... [283] ... Lace: Fibula Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 282-283) 1440]
c.f.: fibula
ME, MdE; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French laz, las, etc.; L lacea, laceus from vernacular use; ultimately from popular L laqueus. MED adds, "In ME, sometimes difficult to distinguish from lesse `a leash", etc.' (s.v. 'las, n.'). The modern sense of lace as a delicate, open-work fabric of linen, cotton, silk, etc., woven into decorative patterns, dates from the 16th century (cf. 'lace, n', OED2, sense 6).
WF:
Etym Cog: las (W).
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