escoveillon
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Searchable Lemmata: escoveillon (AF).
Alternate Forms: escovelon, escoveloun, escovelun, escoviluns, escuvelun.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
most likely a cleaning or drying cloth or towel (glossing Latin tersorium); possibly an implement such as a mop or broom.(circa 1200 - ante 1300 ?)
1. [12] ... capella a capite dicuntur, quod gallice dicitur feurtre ... pulvilli: ille partes selle, gallice dicuntur bat ... [13] ... bractiola: bracoleres ... pannarii: drapeirs ... [13.33] ... hoc tersorium: escovelon ... [14] ... mitra gallice: mitre ... [14.59] ... stragule gallice: estrailles
Gloss.
[AND Vernac Glosses (12-14)]
2. [129] ... pilleola: lé petit hurettes (var. petit chapews vel huris) ... calciamenta: chaucemens ... intercutia: rivez, waltez, erivetes, woltes, rivés, walte, les rivez, les erivés ... [130] ... atramentario: anglice blec, gallice neiret .i. blech, anglice blecce, de neyret, neyret, nerete ... pennula: furure ... [131] ... tersorio: tersour, escoveloun, escovelun, tayle
Gloss.
[AND TLL (ii 129-131) ante 1300]
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, a diminutive of Old French escove, from Latin scopa 'broom, besom'; the French word had a wider variety of applications, including cleaning-cloths and coverings, which overlaps with the gloss tersorium. A variant of this form may be the source of French escoullion, English scullion.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: tersorium (L).
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