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niger

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Searchable Lemmata: niger (L), neir (AF), noir (AF).
Alternate Forms: nigre, nigri, nigris, nigro, nigrum, nayre.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Dye; colour black; a dark colour; black as a liturgical colour. Also used figuratively; as a nickname; in plant-names, place-names, etc.(ante 700 still in current use)
1. mulieres possunt sub nigero velamine accipere sacrificium ut Basilius judicavit Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS THEOD. (Pen. II 7. 3) ante 700]
2. Un huce nayre vestou avoit, Dedens furoure et de grise [AND Art (250) circa 1250/1300]
3. Coloris vestimentorum sunt quatuor vel sex varietates juxta morem curie Romane videlicet, candidus, rubeus, viridis seu croceus, violacius, blauus vel niger. Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS Ord. Exon. (St John Hope 222) 1337]
AF, L; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Textile; black cloth or fabric; black clothing.(circa 1190 - circa 1390)
1. ut homines nigris indutos non refugiantblack clothing [DMLBS GIR. (IK II 1 p. 109) circa 1191]
2. omnia rubea excepto una capa de nigris ad opus Cayphe Accounts. (MS Lambeth 729); black fabric [DMLBS Invent. Ch. Ch. (25n) ante 1315]
3. tempore exequiarum ... sint xxiiij pauperes nigro induti stantes circa corpus meum [DMLBS Reg. Exon. (II 742) 1393]
4. [745] ... xv ulnas de blanketo, xv ulnas de nigro ... [763] ... habeat justum titulum hereditarium ad portandum, pro cresta sua, unum leopardum de auro, cum uno labello albo Accounts. [DMLBS Foed. (VII 745-763) 1393/1394]
L; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Dye; by extension, used to refer to a person or persons wearing black (a monk, bishop, or similar; a congregation of scholars wearing black). Used to refer to a person wearing a black religious habit: a Benedictine (1200; 1292-3), an Augustinian, a Dominican (citation c1527 not given).(circa 1000 - post 1527)
1. cesarie caput ille niger pie talia dicta, / cui relegendo placent quos facit ille modos Philosophy, Poetic. noun, describing an (unspecified) monk, bishop or sim. [DMLBS ABBO (QG 18 (40)) circa 1000]
2. ne monachi aut canonici nigri vel moniales nigre cappis coloratis utantur set tantum nigris Ecclesiastic/Regula. Benedictine (adj.) [DMLBS Conc. Syn. (I 1070) 1200]
3. Templariis ... albis monachis ... nigris monachis Ecclesiastic/Regula. Benedictine (as adj.) [DMLBS T. CHOBHAM (Serm. 20 97va) circa 1230]
4. prit le ordre de neyer moyne Legal. (neyer moyne = Benedictine monk) [AND YBB Ed I (20-21) 1292/1293]
AF, L; Primarily Ecclesiastic/Regula.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF neir, noir from Old French; Classical Latin niger.
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