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frieze

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Searchable Lemmata: frise (AF), frise (ME), frisium (L), friso (L), frisen (ME), ffris (W), frieze (MdE).
Alternate Forms: ffrysyd, frese, fresed, fresen, fresyd, frisez, frisii, frisio, frisione, frisones, frissonibus, fryse, frysed, frysyd, frysythe.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; coarse woollen cloth with a thick nap, usually on one side. In MdE, often described as of Irish manufacture (cf. frieze-ware), and occasionally of Welsh [EEC, 491]. A basic, practical textile, used as clothing for poorer people, see Chambers, M and Coatsworth, E. (2012). Also in the forms 'frieze cloth' and 'friezed cloth' (cf. villatus).(ante 1300 still in current use)
1. emerat ... duos frisones, ... pro v s. iiij d., super quos tradidit ei argentum Dei et iiij d. in arris Legal. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS Law Merch. (I 68) 1295]
2. [194] ... mulierem lotricem bone opinionis ... que sciat omnes pannos lineos fratrum ... debito modo consuere et lavare ... [196] ... capam de frisione sine furrara Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS Obs. Barnwell (194-196) 1295/1296]
3. item pro vj frissonibus pro iiij frokis ad iiij novicios ... pro linea tela pro ... coopertura cervicalium Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Durh. (165) 1325]
4. pro ij virgis frisii viridis emptis pro le countyngburd Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. H. Derby (10) 1390]
5. [8] ... xxiiij virgis de rubano motteley ... [8/25] ... virga et j quarterio de blu fryse ... emptis pro penons, ij s. d. Accounts. [MED Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52 (8) 1391]
6. [643] ... draps appellés ... frisez d'Irland et de Galys ... [644] ... Item monstrent les communes de vostre roialme, qe come par estatuit et ordinance faitz deins vostre roialme en l'an vij[me] de vostre gracious regne, chescun court drape fait en les parties de westcuntre dedeins vostre roialme teignereit par assise la longure de .xxviij. verges par le crest, et chescune dozein de draps la longure de .xiiij. verges par le crest, et les raies conteignerent en longure par le list mesures mesme la longure: c'estassavoir, le drape entier .xxviij. verges, et le dozein .xiiij. verges; et certeins persones ulnerers, a ce assignez parmy vostre roialme, preignantz lour charge en vostre escheqer de bien et loialment sanz fraude sercher et surveier tiels ... [645] ... tielx draps & duisseins ... pur conceler icest deceyt du mesure les suis ditz gentz ency fesantz tiels draps & duisseins les facent pliter & takker ensemble Legal. Citations from AND2 compared against and extended with PROME. Chris Given-Wilson (ed.), 'Henry IV: Parliament of January 1410, Text and Translation', in The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. C. Given-Wilson et al., items 64 & 69. Internet version, at http://www.sd-editions.com/PROME, accessed on 2 June 2010. Scholarly Digital Editions, Leicester: 2005. [AND RotParl1 (iii 643-5) 1410]
7. draps appellez Kendale kersey, fryse de Coventre, Coggeware Legal. [AND RotParl1 (iii 614) 1377/1411]
8. [91] ... de ... j coopertorio de rubeo worsted embroudato cum uno castro albo ... j coster de rubeo worsted embroudato cum albis litteris ... [92] ... ij mantellis de frisio Hibernico ... [98] ... j remanent de cameraka blodia et alba Accounts. [DMLBS Arch. (LXX 91-98) 1415]
9. [28] ... A grene bed of borde alisaundre wt þe hole sile wt ... ye armes of John Cheyne Squier ... wt iij corteyns reed ... [30] ... An helyng of whit frise lyned with blanket. Wills. [MED Will in Bdf.HRS 2 (28-30) 1415]
10. pro ij rollis frisii panni Wallie Other. [DMLBS EEC (491) 1421]
11. je voille qe cink poveres homes soient vestetz le jour de ma entierment (=burial) en russet fryse [AND Reg Chich (ii 7) 1414/1443]
12. [132] ... Item, I bequethe to the said chirch, ane hole sute of vestmytes [read: vestmyntes] of russet velvet ... One coope, chesible diacones, for decones; with the awbes and parures ... 1 chesible diacones, for decones, or frees of white clothe of gold powdred with garters ... [134] ... On vestment ... that ys of blak satyn ground, figured wyth rede velvet ... I bequethe ... myne executors to make for the same chalice ii small nets of sylver and over-gilt. Wills. [MED Will Brugco in Nichols Illust. (132-134) 1449]
13. That 3e wille do byen sume frese to maken of 3our child is gwnys ... And ... a 3erd of brode clothe ... for ther is nether gode cloth ner god fryse in this twn [MED Paston (2.102) circa 1450]
14. lego ... togam meam de murray cum fresa duplicatam Wills. [DMLBS Wills Richm. (3) 1457]
15. Frise to make gownes and cotes, and lynnen cloth to make shertes and smokkes Wills. [MED Will Gregory in Camd.n.s.17 (p.xlv) 1465]
16. [195] Milgwn Ffrainc mal gynau ffris, Meudwyaid, mi a'u dewis. [206] Cwnsallt o saffrymwallt ffris. Poetic. [GPC GGl (195, 206) 1445/1475]
c.f.: frieze-ware, villatus
AF, L, ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(vb.) Manufacture; to make a nap on cloth; to make frieze (1); also as a past participle, 'friezed' [modern uses in historical contexts].(circa 1390 - circa 1880 ?)
1. [A black] faldyngmantell fresed Legal. [MED Pat.R.Rich.II (4.482) 1391]
2. Frysare, or he þat frysythe clothe [vr. he þat makyþ ffrysyd cloth]: Villator. Fryse or frysyd [vr. fresyd] clothe: Pannus villatus. Fryse clothe: Villo. Frysynge of clothe: Villatura Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 179) 1440]
3. [111] ... j peyr scheitz of fyne holandez ... [113] ... A frysed goune ... [114] ... I will ... my felowe John Shipton for to have my dubbelet of mayell, my stomager of mayell, and a salet Wills. [MED MSS Middleton in HMC (111-114) 1433]
4. j fresed mantill Wills. [MED Will York in Sur. Soc. 45 (163) 1468]
ME, MdE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French; ultimately from Dutch frise, vriese [pannus crispatus]. The British L form frisium stems from AF/ME usage. The L form friso (which more commonly refers to an inhabitant of Friesland) appears in 1295 and 1325 referring to the cloth. The Welsh form ffris is a borrowing from Middle English forms with apocope of the final syllable.
WF:
Etym Cog: frise (OF), frise (Dutch), vriese (Dutch).
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