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cygaston

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Searchable Lemmata: cygaston (L).
Alternate Forms: Unique.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; cloth of gold, perhaps associated with ciclatoun (or a variant).(circa 1349)
1. ad faciend' j cotarmuram de panno lane pro rege de armis suis quartellat' ... j doublettum coopertum de cygaston' pann[i] adaur' Accounts. (KR Ac 391/15); (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS Arch. (XXXI 49) 1349]
c.f.: ciclatoun
L; Primarily Accounts.
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Hypothetical, Unknown, but cf. ciclatoun and cyclas.
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