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boot

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Searchable Lemmata: bote (AF), botta (L), bote (ME), botas (W), botas (Corn), búatis (Ir), bute (OScots), boot (MdE).
Alternate Forms: búatis, búatais, botes, boots, bootis.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Footwear; item of footwear which extends above the ankle, usually made of leather. In general, the term refers to leg coverings such as hose, boots and greaves. Irish examples are late, postdating 1450, while Welsh examples predating 1450 refer to leg armour.(ante 1175 still in current use)
1. dabunt nobis annuatim ... duo paria botarum ad Pentecosten [DMLBS E. Ch. Yorks (XI 242) ante 1175]
2. botesseu kenhenlauc .iiii. [GPC LlDW (103. 10) circa 1200]
3. recipiet annuatim bis calciamenta, in yeme [sc. botas *fentratas [l. feutratas] et in estate botas non *fentratas Ecclesiastic/Regula. (cf. Doc. Robertsbr. (HMC) 96: unas botas de alluto) [DMLBS Doc. Robertsbr. (HMC) (103) circa 1248]
4. Item qe Corvoisers ne suours ne vendent botes, soulers Legal. [AND Stats (i 312 iv) post 1274]
5. [416] ... Hec subuncla: chemisce ... hic anulus: anel ... Hec armilla, Hec torques, bende d’or ... Hec crepita: bote ... Hec capa pl[u]vialis: cape a pluie ... Hec capa profilata, chape a porfil ... hec capa singularis: cape sengle ... Hec thiara: coife ... Hoc impedium: empeigne ... hee brace: brais et plr. hec saraballa -lorum et hoc femorale: famillares a moine ... hoc flameolum: hastecul ... hoc toreuma, lit urné ... [417] ... Hec superus et plr. hec supera: kevestron ... hec perizomata: quissel de brais Gloss. (citations from page of text may not appear in original order) [AND TLL (i 416-417) ante 1300]
6. Aylmer king ... sette on his fotes Boþe spores and botes. Heroic, Romance. [MED Horn ((LdMisc 108) 522) circa 1300]
7. tunicas induunt ... quidam ... birratas ante et retro; quidam quasi per circuitum habent birras Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS Conc. (II 730c) 1346]
8. in ... redditu .. unius paris botarum *felcatarum [l. feltatarum] Accounts. [DMLBS RMS Scot. (91) 1367]
9. Item pro j pare de botes furratis cum blanket pro domino. Accounts. [MED Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52 (280/16) 1393]
10. gabad asāin teasaidi uime ... 7 buatuisi fairsingi, gl. calcietur sotularibus vel ocreis largis Medical. [eDIL RSláinte (8028) circa 1420]
11. loco botarum ... assignamus tibi ut uti valeas ... calligis secularibus super casullas ascendentibus Accounts. [DMLBS Reg. Heref. (33b) 1423]
12. He [Goliath] hadde bootis of bras [vr. brasen bootis; WB(1): stelyn legharneis; L ocreas æreas] in the hipis. Biblical/Hagiographic. greaves? [MED WBible(2) ((Roy 1.C.8) 1 Kings 17.6) ante 1425]
13. Ley it [linen cloth] vpon þe sore huppe and þe legge and make a bote of blak lam from be-nethe þe kne vp-ward and ley þe wol syde to þe legge wardeleg covering [MED Burg.Practica ((Rwl D.251) 220/1) circa 1450]
c.f.: ocrea, hose
AF, Co, Ir, L, ME, MdE, OScots, W.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot, Leg.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French bote.
WF:
Etym Cog: bote (OF).
References:

    Archaeological Evidence:

Boots are attested in Anglo-Saxon archaeology as early as the 7th century, Owen-Crocker, G.R., 2004, pp. 180-1.
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