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sanguine

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Searchable Lemmata: sanguien (AF), sangwyn (AF), sanguin (ME), sanguine (MdE).
Alternate Forms: sanguyn, sanguynes, sangweyn, sangwyn, sangwyne, syngynge.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Textile; originally an adjective meaning 'blood-red'; used nominally to refer to a type of cloth dyed such a colour or garment made of such cloth.(ante 1320 - 1423)
1. [Two] sanguynes [in grain, value 15 pounds]. Accounts. [MED Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond. (131) 1319]
2. In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al, Lyned with taffata and with sendal. Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.Prol. ((Manly-Rickert) A.439) circa 1387/1395]
3. vous achaterez [...] noef verges de sanguin [AND Man lang (47) 1396]
4. ... en scarlet, en sangwyn & en autres colours Legal. [AND RotParl1 (iii 626) 1410]
AF, ME, MdE; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: N/A    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Textile; in the Anglo-French compound term sangwyn tanee 'tanned sanguine', to refer to a type of maroon cloth with a browner, darker hue than regular sangine.(circa 1400)
1. Veicy de bon escarlet, violet, sangwyn tannee [AND Man lang (74) 1396]
AF.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French sanguin, sanguine (cf. AF sanguin), and L sanguis, sanguinis, Medieval L sanguinea (neuter plural adj. as a noun).
WF:
Etym Cog: sanguin (AF).
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