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dubber

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Searchable Lemmata: dubber (ME), dubbeour (AF), dubbarius (L), dubbator (L), dubber (MdE).
Alternate Forms: dobber, doubur, dubario, dubbar, dubbatores, dubbeour, dubbour, dubbur.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Occupation; mender or renovator of old clothes, or one who dresses cloth or hide.(ante 1195 ? still in current use)
1. hic testibus: ... Salomone dubario Legal, Other. [DMLBS AncD (A 7862) circa 1200]
2. hanc liberacionem dubbator lane dum lanam nostram preparat cotidie solet recipere Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Beaulieu (295) circa 1276]
3. omnes dubbatores de correo vaccino faciunt falsitatem in opere suo Legal. [DMLBS Leet Norw. (13) 1288]
4. [25] ... voz pennez sont si colurez ... les uns com saunk, les autres desorrez (var. dorretz) ... [34] ... Les chapeleynez ... se affient [taunt] en lur corone e en la reverence qe la gent lur font ... [39] ... Lors fra Dieux, com fet le dobbour de veux dras qi tourne le geron a la peitrine Poetic. [AND BOZ Cont (25-39) 1300/1350]
AF, L, ME, MdE.
Sex: Male    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Probably AF (appears in legal records from at least 1191), from Old French adobëor, a)dubur, dubbeour. Ultimately Germanic.
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