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cambre

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Searchable Lemmata: cambre (AF), cambrium (L), cambre (ME).
Alternate Forms: caumbre, caumbry, chambre, kaumbre, kaunbre, caumbr', cambrio, camphora, cambrii.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; hemp.(1245 - 1450 ?)
1. c solidatas fili de caumbr' mittant ... ad cordas ad ingenia regis faciendas Accounts. [DMLBS Liberate (21 m. 4) 1245]
2. Car de lyn averez les bucheaus (ME filax bolles) E de caumbre les cordeaus [AND BIBB ANTS (418) circa 1250]
3. in j corda de cambrio empta Accounts. [DMLBS MinAc (1070/5 r. 1) 1282]
4. in v capistris de propria camphora faciendis j d. Accounts. 'cf. ib. 136' [DMLBS] [DMLBS Rec. Elton (65) 1297]
5. [54] ... hec sirma: e[m]pleez ... [55] ... hoc tubrale (sic) vel tibratus: genuler ... canabium: cambre ... fultrum: coylte ... galiale: eschapel de feutre ... hoc lu[m]bare, a lumbo, a[r]millare: espauler, ab armis ... humerale: espauler Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 54-55) ante 1300]
6. ij cor[ea] et j cor[eum] peiterell' ad pacsadel' que fuerunt in castello et peiterell' fuerant petrefacta et furata ... item xvj chakel' cum xvj loynes cambrii Accounts. (citations from transcriptions cited in DMLBS may not appear in original order) [DMLBS KR (Ac 99/38) 1320]
7. pur iiij clewes et vj. skeynes de fil decambre [AND Chamber (675) 1322/1323]
8. By-houes þe to gedir theis herbis ... burnette ... crope de cambre, fenell Medical. [MED Thrn.Med.Bk. ((Thrn) 67/10) circa 1440]
c.f.: chanvre
AF, L, ME.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Textile; fine fabric; linen, cambric?(circa 1305 ?)
1. [260] ... Les unes des autres avysont les testes ... Sy nule seit descornue, de ly font les gestes ... [262] ... Mostrent les covrechief de seye e de kaunbre ... [266] ... La maundent les broués, se aseent au diner, Jettent les barbez (vars. barbés, barbuz, barberes), la bouche pur overer Poetic. [AND BOZ Char (260-266) circa 1305]
c.f.: cambric
AF.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Anglo-Norman; (cf. AF/Old French chanvre); appears in British texts from at least 1245.
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