streamer
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Searchable Lemmata: stremere (ME), stramerus (L), estremarius (L), stremar (OScots), streamer (MdE).
Alternate Forms: straymers, stremare, stremer, stremers, stremerse, stremour, stremours.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
long, narrow pennant or flag attached to a standard or ship's mast, designed to flow in the wind; also used to refer to a pendant strip of similar kind used to adorn altars.(circa 1295 still in current use)
2. Als thay stode so appone the lande ... Those schippes sawe thay ryde With toppe-castelles sett one lofte ... Stremours fro thame ferre gane glyde.
Romance.
[MED Isumb. ((Thrn) 224) ante 1350]
3. The kynge com in-to the stour with hys baner in his honde ... Crownes of goolde and asure bendes entrauerse lysted as grene as a mede, and the stremers [F langues] down to the handes of Antony his stiwarde.
Arthurian.
[MED Merlin ((Cmb Ff.3.11) 163) circa 1450]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.)
Decoration;
part of a garment which trails in the manner of a streamer.(circa 1420 - ante 1500)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
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Etymological Evidence:
Definite, from the ME verb stremen 'to flow' (see stream) + agent suffix. Latham offers the British L forms stramerus (1302) and estremarius (1337) but does not provide etymology (s.v. 'stramerus', p. 454).
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