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courtepy

, court + py.
Searchable Lemmata: courte-pi (ME), cortepi (AF), curtepia (L), courtepy (MdE).
Alternate Forms: courtepie, curtepie, courtebi, curtbi, curtebi, cutepium, cutepetum, courtepy, curtepy, courtby, courteby, courbys, cowrtby, coutepies, courtepiis, courtpies.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; short cloak, mantle, jacket; short mantle made of rough-haired skins; a tabard or similar.(1263 - circa 1475)
1. mandatum est ... emptoribus Garderobe regis quod faciant habere Mathie B. ... unam curtepiam cum bona furura Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Cl (261b) 1263]
2. Comaundez ... a vos gentis hommes ki vos robes pernent, ke memes ço robes ... usent pur vostre honur garder, ne pas veaus talbarz, e soyllez herigauz ne cuntrefetes curtepies [AND HENLEY2 (402.xxi) circa 1285]
3. bombacilium, A. cowrteby; bombicinum, A. a jakke; bombacinum, A. secundum quosdam aketoun; bombecina, a acton; lombesina, a paltoke Gloss. [DMLBS WW (bombacilium) circa 1301/1399]
4. invenit super costeram maris de wrecco domini j curtepiam precii xiiij d. Legal. [DMLBS CourtR (Kent) (180/57) circa 1330]
5. Lego Anabillæ quondam servienti meæ ... unam tunicam de maydenhare ... Lego Evæ servienti meæ unum courteby cum capucio ... Lego... Aliciæ ... unam tunicam de tuly Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.4 (71) 1359]
6. [2.207] ... [A bed of] Norfolk [and a bed of] Wurstede [dyed and worked with figures] ... [2.210] ... [A pair of] bedes [of] blakgett [with gilt] gaudes ... [A] Courbe [and a] Kyrtel Legal, Wills. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Will Court Hust. ((Gldh) 2.207-2.210) 1379]
7. A Clerk ther was ... Ful thredbare was his ouereste courtepy Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.Prol. ((Manly-Rickert) A.290) circa 1387/1395]
8. An heep of heremites ... ketten here copes and courtpies hem made, And wenten as werkemen Poetic, Vision. (work: c1378) [MED PPl.B ((LdMisc 581) 6.191) circa 1400]
9. [220] ... She was clad ful porely Al in an old torn courtepy [F. cote] ... bothe bihynde and eke biforn Clouted was she beggarly ... [227] ... A burnet cote heng therwithall, Furred with no menyver, But with a furre rough of her Of lambe-skynnes hevy blake ... [234] ... It were hir loth To weren ofte that ilke cloth Poetic, Romance. (work: ?a1400) [MED RRose ((Htrn 409) 220-234) ante 1425]
10. A Couerlett: lectisternium, coopertorium, tegimen, textus, tegimentum, velamen ... A Cowrtby: renale, hemitogium Gloss. (dating uncertain) [MED *Cath.Angl. ((Add 15562) 28b - 29a) circa 1475]
c.f.: renale, hemitogium
AF, L, ME, MdE.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: Secular    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Shoulder(s).

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Latin curtepia, etc. from Middle English (curte-pi, etc.) from Middle Dutch (corte, curte pie, a short coat). [Cf. AF court and L curtus]
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