venter
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Searchable Lemmata: venter (L), ventre (AF), venter (MdE).
Alternate Forms: ventres.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Raw Material;
belly, stomach; fur or leather from the belly of the animal (as opposed to dos or tergum, fur of the back, c.1225).
The term was used as a standard unit of measure for fur, particularly in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.(1235 - 1416)
2. Eidem: ad una[m] robam de tot garniament[es] ut sup[ra] p[ro] eod[e]m d[omi]no rege cont[r]a d[i]c[tu]m f[estu]m natal[is] d[omi]ni de lib[er]at’ R[eg]is F[ra]nc’ faciend[am] 7 furrurand[am] 7 capuc[io] cloc’... d[i]c[t]e rob[e] c[ir]cumligand[um] cu[m] rub[ant]’ auri strict[i]
xj. uln’ pann[i] mixt’ long’ de ----- Brucell de dono R[eg]is F[r]anc’
iij. q[u]art’ uni[us] uln’ pann[i] sanguin’ ----- in G[r]ano de empt[o]
ij. furrur’ ut[er]q[ue] de ciiij xxiiij ventr[es] ----- m[i]n[iver] pur’ de dono Reg[is] Fr [a]nc’
j. cloc’ de Dcxl ventr[es] ----- m[i]n[iver] pur’
j. mantellett’ de ciiijxx ventr[es] ----- m[i]n[iver] pur’
j. capuc[ium] de cx ventr[es] ----- m[i]n[iver] pur’
xxvj. best’ Ermyns ----- ermyns de empt[i]o[n]e
iiijor uln’ j. q[u]art’ rubant aur[i] strict[i] ----- rubant aur[i] strict[i]
Accounts.
[LexP NA [PRO] E 101/393/15 (m. 1, item 2) 1361/1362]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
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Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Classical Latin venter 'abdomen, belly' > Old French/Anglo-French ventre: 'peau du ventre d'une bête' (Godefroy, s.v. '2 ventre'); cf. Middle French ventre: 'Fourrure du ventre d'un animal' (DMF, s.v. 'ventre, subst. masc.'), etc. Also cf. AF/ME aventaille. The Modern English adoption of the word dates from the sixteenth century, with various meanings, but not textile-related ones (see OED venter n. 1).
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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