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cæfing

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Searchable Lemmata: cæfing (OE).
Alternate Forms: cæfinga.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Jewellery; hairpin or headdress that binds the hair.(ante 1100)
1. cincinnorum redimiculorum [cæfinga] capillorum fexa ł hæra [DOE AldV 1 (Goossens) (1248 (1248))]
2. Discriminale : uplegen ł cæfing [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (2230 (D595))]
3. discriminalia earpreonas, cæfinga. Gloss. [DOE AldV 13.1 (Nap) (4821 (4821))]
c.f.: discriminale, cæfed
OE; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Speculative, Based upon an unattested Old English verb 'cæfian', meaning to bind.
WF: Derivation
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