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ciclatoun

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Searchable Lemmata: ciclatun (AF), cyclaton (L), siclatoun (ME), ciclatoun (MdE).
Alternate Forms: ciclatoun, ciclatoun, ciclatoune, ciclatun, ciclatune, ciglatons, cilaton, cingulatones, seclaton, sekelaton, sekelatone, sekelatoune, sicladoun, sicladoune, siclatine, siclaton, siclatoun, siclatoune, siglatoun, sikelatoun, siklatoun, silaton, silkelatoun, silklatoun.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; fine silken fabric woven with gold or a garment made from this fabric. Also, an ornamental covering for animals made from this fabric. [NOTE: a form (of silken textile) appears in fourteenth-century Wardrobe accounts [cf. NA MS E 101/394/9, memb. 6] spelled 'sigaston'](circa 1200 - ante 1500 ?)
1. bliaut de samit u de bon ciclatun Heroic, Romance. [AND Horn (4560) circa 1170]
2. les trefs ... De samit, de cendal [e] de bons ciglatons Heroic, Historic, Poetic, Romance. [AND Rom Chev ANTS (4993) circa 1175/1200]
3. capa Johannis Maunsel de panno aureo qui vocatur ciclatoun Other. [DMLBS Vis. S. Paul. (318b) 1295]
4. Y-comen we ben into þis cuntre; Fowe & griis anou3 lade we ... Gode cloþes of sikelatoun & Alisaundrinis, Peloure of Matre ... & biis Heroic, Poetic, Romance. [MED Guy(1) ((Auch) 2836) circa 1330]
5. ij panni ad aurum siglaton' ... ponuntur ... super corpus domine de Gistels defuncte Accounts. [DMLBS Reg. Black Pr. (IV f. 45) 1352]
6. [1917] ... His rode is lyk scarlet in grayn ... [1924] ... His robe was of syklatoun [vrr. sicladoun, ciclatoune, silkatoun, sylke latoun] That coste many a iane Poetic, Romance. [MED Chaucer CT.Th. ((Manly-Rickert) B.1917-24) circa 1390]
7. Jch wil chargen alle þine beestes Wiþ pelles and ciclatounes [LinI: siglatouns] honestes Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: ?a 1300) [MED KAlex. ((LdMisc 622) 6687) circa 1400]
8. Ciclatounes þat weren of prijs, Pelured wiþ Ermyne & wiþ grijs. Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED St.Alex.(3) ((LdMisc 622) 38/398) circa 1400]
9. Syxty þousynd comen ... Off Sarezynes ... Wiþ many a pensel off sykelatoun [vr. siclatyne], And off sendel. Historic, Poetic, Romance. [MED Rich. ((Brunner) 5001) ante 1450/1509]
c.f.: cygaston
ME.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French ciclaton AF ciclatun, siclaton, etc., and Latin cyclaton, etc., from Arabic (siqlatun).
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: ciclaton (OF).
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