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Searchable Lemmata: pecia (L), pecium (L), pecius (L), pecies (L), piece (AF), pece (ME), pece (DOST), piece (MdE).
Alternate Forms: peciis, pes, pecs pes (ME), pese (ME), pesse (ME), peace (ME), piece (ME), etc..

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Law/Custom; with regard to cloth and clothing: a measure of fabric varying in length according to material. Length was measured by the yard or the ell, and its breadth by the quarter (of a yard), i.e 9 inches. There were standard measures supported by legislation, but there were many exceptions as it could vary according to the quality of the fabric, its construction, its monetary value, and its place of origin or manufacture [Netherton].(ante 1300 still in current use)
1. Editha de Salopesira capta cum quadam pecia de canavaz deliberetur eo quod parum valet Accounts. [DMLBS BNB (III 563) 1226]
2. de Rogero le bald quia furatus est tres pecias tannatas Legal. [DMLBS Leet Norw. (37) 1291]
3. una cum dimidia pecia panni cum fururis Other. [DMLBS Pri. Cold. (15) 1325]
4. une piece de sendal rouge [AND Cron Lond (38.14) circa 1343]
5. sex pecias de tapestria viridis coloris ... quinque pecias curtinarum ... unam peciam de blanketo, continentem sex alas Accounts. [DMLBS Foed. (VII 356b) 1382]
6. [129] ... Johanni Couper: a docer & a new bancqwer & ij Cochyns ... [130] ... ij stane of prus garne & a stane of twyne ... Item, Johannæ de Carlton ... half a pes of lawmpas ... a volet of lawmpas neu ... Margeretæ ... do et lego a ... volette of crysp; ... a crisp volet ... Lego Willielmo, filio meo ... unam zonam de corio, cum uno powche Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.4 (129-130) 1389/1390]
7. [17] ... item a J.H. ... lavender xx s. ... hopelandez meilleurs furrez ové menever pure ... un hopeland linez ové bokeram noir ... [18] ... (I bequeath) a A. ... une cloke furré et un grand forser de pecs Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Reg Chich (ii 17-18) 1414/1443]
8. I be whethe to Cristine ... A goune furred with cony, ij kirtels and j pece of kerchefes. Accounts, Legal. [MED Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 ((Lamb 69) 268) 1423]
9. [101] ... De j pecia Chaumpan cloth, cont. ij doss ... pret. le doss. vj s. viij d. ... [102] ... De vj preste caps, syngle, ij s. De ij preste caps, duplicibus, xviij d. ... De viij bonet caps ... De v bonetes duplicatis ... De iij mens bonettes ... De canvas pokez, vj d. ... De iiij pauteners Dornet, ij s. ... De iij dos. et vij uln. lewent store, v s. ... De iij peciis blewe bokesyn et j pece grene bokasyn, pret. xx s. Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Will York in Sur. Soc. 45 (101-102) circa 1446]
10. Item, for dy3yng of a pece sylk, j d. Accounts. [MED Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15 (158) 1454/1455]
AF, L, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: N/A    Use: Secular    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF, from Old French pece, pice, etc. and post Classical Latin pecia, petia (perhaps an unattested form *pettia, *pettium? ['piece', OED, 2nd ed., 1989]).
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