chaussure
.
Searchable Lemmata: chaucer (AF), chauçure (AF), chausura (L), calceatura (L), chaucer (ME).
Alternate Forms: chaucier, chausur, chausers, chausses, chawcers, chausures, chauceore, chausure.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.)
Footwear;
shoe (singular in AF); footware (plural). Cf. AF chauçure and L calceatura.(circa 1200 - 1500 ?)
7. recipiet elemosinarius ... omnia que ad vesturam et calcituram fratris defuncti pertinebant ... tria modendina ... sc. unum fullatorium et duo ad blada
Historic.
[DMLBS FLETE Westm. (105) ante 1469]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.)
Footwear;
greaves; mail or tight leggings for the feet and legs (plural). In about 1484, Caxton uses the term 'chausses' in English to describe iron leg protection ('Chauces of yron or legge harnoys ben gyuen to a knyght' The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, tr. 1484, p. 61). Cf. chausses.(circa 1380)
Sex: Male Use: Military Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot, Leg.
2(n.)
Law/Custom;
provision of footwear; money for footwear.(post 1260 ?)
Sex: Male Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Old French chaucier, chaucëure (cf. AF chaucer, chaucier); ultimately from Latin calceatura and calceus.
WF:
Etym Cog: chausses.
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