powdered
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Searchable Lemmata: pudrata (L), pudrer (AF), poudred (ME), powdered (MdE).
Alternate Forms: poudrez, poudré, poudree, ipoudred (ME), ypoudred (ME), poudered (ME), ipoudered (ME), poudret (ME), poudrt (ME), ipouthered (ME), pudrid (ME), ipudrid (ME), etc..
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(adj.)
Decoration;
of a textile or garment, covered lavishly all over with decoration, especially embroidery, often in filé, together with appliqués, bezants, pearls or gem-stones; particularly popular in the fourteenth century. Appears in heraldic contexts from a1350 (refering to patterns of roses, stars, garters (symbols of the Order of the Garter), etc. From the sixteenth century, primarily used to describe the pattern of black spots on some fur (ermine, etc.). Cf. the L past participle pulverizatur (s.v. pulverizare).(circa 1255 - circa 1450)
1. Item, autres divers garnementz des armes le dit Pieres, ovek les alettes garniz & frettez de perles ... Item, une grosse garnette, e un saphir petit sur mesme le baston ... Item, sur un autre baston, deux rubiz, deux saphirs, un gernette, un cristal ... Item, deux peires de jambers de feer, ventz et noveauz ... Item, un autre chesible, tunicle, dalmaticle, dosser frontal de un drap de vert, poudré de oiseaus & de poissons d’or
Accounts.
[AND Foedera (ii 203) post 1255]
2. [132] ... Item, I bequethe to the said chirch, ane hole sute of vestmytes [read: vestmyntes] of russet velvet ... One coope, chesible diacones, for decones; with the awbes and parures ... 1 chesible diacones, for decones, or frees of white clothe of gold powdred with garters ... [134] ... On vestment ... that ys of blak satyn ground, figured wyth rede velvet ... I bequethe ... myne executors to make for the same chalice ii small nets of sylver and over-gilt.
Wills.
[MED Will Brugco in Nichols Illust. (132-134) 1449]
Sex: Male, Female, Infant Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, AF pudrer, poodrer, poudrer, puldrer and Middle French poudrer, etc.(AF past participles: poudré, poudree); and from Classical Latin poudrare, pudrare (to dust/sprinkle with salt/spice; to spangle as ornamentation).
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