frieze-ware
, frieze + ware.
Searchable Lemmata: frise-ware (ME), friseware (AF), frieze-ware (MdE).
Alternate Forms: fryseware.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Textile;
cf. frieze, 1. While the textile 'frieze' appears frequently from the thirteenth century onwards, the compound friseware/fryseware only seems to have been attested infrequently and only in the fourteenth century.(circa 1375 - 1483)
1. des draps appellez Friseware, queux sount faitz en Irland, ou autrement en Engleterre de leynes irreises amesnés deinz le Roialme d’Engleterre
Legal.
[MED Statutes Realm (1.398) 1377]
2. amesnent ... de la terre d’Irlandz sibien draps irreis appelez Fryseware come layne irreise dont tieux draps sont faitz
Legal.
[MED RParl. (2.372a) 1376/1377]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, From the n. frieze (Old French/Dutch) + cloth.
WF: Compound
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