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Searchable Lemmata: forme (ME), forme (AF), form (OScots), form (MdE).
Alternate Forms: formes, fourmes.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Manufacture; mould, an instrument for shaping; (in specific instances) a cobbler's last, ME souteres forme ('sowtarys forme', 1440).(ante 1350 still in current use)
1. [Peautrer ... To Thomas his son, all his instruments and] fourmes [appertaining to his craft.] Legal, Wills. [MED Will Court Hust. ((Gldh) 1.502) 1345]
2. Leste, sowtarys forme: Formula, formipedia, calopodia. Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 298) 1440]
3. [15] ... mataxa: cerenz ... [16] ... pluscularum: buclers ... [17] ... formipedias: formes, lastes ... pillea: biretes Gloss. [AND Vernac Glosses (15-17)]
c.f.: formella, formipedia
AF, ME.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Utilisation; outward appearance or fashion of clothing, style of dress (in cloth and clothing contexts); the shape or cut of a garment or suit of garments.(ante 1400 still in current use)
1. Þy wedez ... of a fayr forme to fote and to honde. Poetic, Vision. [MED Cleanness ((Nero A.10) 174) circa 1400]
2. And alle Craftes yat wilbe Cladde shal be cladde after ye fourme of London Historic, Legal. [MED Rec.Norwich 1 (108) 1415]
3. For of þis same Simpliciane took he þe forme of an habite whech his heremytes vsed aftirward, and he eke Biblical/Hagiographic, Historic. [MED Capgr.St.Aug. ((Add 36704) 28/16) circa 1450]
AF, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female, Infant    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French, from L forma.
WF:
Etym Cog: forma (L), formella (L).
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