coverlet
.
Searchable Lemmata: coverlit (AF), keverlite (AF), coverletum (L), coverlite (ME), cwrlid (W), coverlatt (OScots), coverlet (MdE).
Alternate Forms: coverlight, coverlet, coverlid, coverled, coverlade, coverlect, keverlit, keveret, coopelit.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.)
Furnishing;
bedcloth, a coverlet.(1303 still in current use)
2. [E101/395/2/51] ... un lit, c’est assavoir, un coverlit, un peire de lincheux, un blanket et un canevace ... [E101/395/2/54] ... facez liverer trois draps d’or baldekyns de Luc
Accounts.
[AND PRO E101/395/2 (51-54) circa 1370]
3. Cysgu ar blu neu bliant / A llennau, cylchedau, cant / Ymysg o gwrlidau mil, / A'r porffor drud o'r pwrffil / A'r gra ar gymar a'r gob. / A'i wisgoedd - wi o'r esgob.
[GPC GIG (77,79-84) circa 1350/1360]
6. Item vij towell' ... pris viijs.
Item iiij roll' worstede ... pris xxs.
Item iiij pec. worstede ... pris iiij markes
Item iiij pec. Card ... pris xs.
Item j pec. et di. de bordelisaundre ... pris vjs.
Item ij keverlites ove ij testurys
enbrawded de le minime stature ... xiijs. iiijd.
Item j keverlite et testur' de blew worstede ... vjs. viijd.
Item j pec. de ffustyan ... xiijs. iiijd.
Item iiij dossen kercheves de Berchefoll ... xiijs. iiijd.
Item vj peyntyd clothus ... iiijs.
[LexP Bristol Customs Searchers (p. 51, no. 38.A) circa 1399/1413]
7. [11238] ... Bituix tua cribbes sco him laid; Was þar na riche geres graithed, Was þar na pride o couerled ... [11239] ... Was þar na pride o couerled [vr. couerlite], chamber, curtin, ne tapit.
Philosophy.
[MED Cursor ((Vsp A.3) 11238-9) ante 1400]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.)
Garment;
cloth for covering various items (altar cloth; funeral shroud; furniture covering; etc.).(1413 ? still in current use)
1. [16] ... I pray ... myn executours ... þat on my stynkyng careyne be neþer þer laid cloth of gold ne of silke but russet cloþ ... [18] ... I ... by qwethe to þat same chirche þe couerlyt of Gold enbrouded with Typtoftes armes for to couere wyþ þe sepulcre. ... I wolle ... to þt same chirche þe vestement of blak Camoka, þt is to seyne chesuble, ij tunycles ... and stooles longing þerto, for to synge þerinne þe day of my Serrement
Wills.
[MED Will in Bdf.HRS 2 (16-18) 1413]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Anglo-Norman cuver-lit, coverlit, keverlit. Cf. Old French covre-lit.
'OF. covre-lit (f. covrir to cover + lit bed). Examples of coverlit, coverlet occur in 14th c. Anglo-Fr.; but these may be from English. (Mod.F. couvre-lit is a neologism, suggested perhaps in part by Eng. coverlet.) The variants in -let, -light, -led, -lid (see next), etc., show that at an early date the composition of the word was unknown' ['coverlet', OED, 2nd ed., 1989].
WF:
Etym Cog: covre-lit (OF), coverlit, coverlet, coopertorium.
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