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fringe

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Searchable Lemmata: frenge (ME), frenge (AF), frengia (L), frenʒe (OScots), fringe (MdE).
Alternate Forms: freng, frang, frange, freigne, freine, frende, frangiis, franges, frenges, frangs.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Decoration; decorative or structural thread(s), fibre(s), tassel(s); ornament composed of long or short lengths of thread, often grouped and/or knotted in various designs. It may be a structural device to fasten off warp threads or an applied trimming or border. Figs [London has egs] [Also, spec. that worn by the Hebrews in accordance with Numbers XV.38].(ante 1215 still in current use)
1. Benoit vit un noir enfant Qui troist le moine folaiant Par les frenges de son froc fors [AND Dial Greg (40ra) 1212]
2. pro freng' et fresell' [ad capas] vj s. Accounts. [DMLBS Liberate (9 m. 5) 1230]
3. 'p aurifrasia mea simplicia cum frangiis et aliis ad vestimenta ... pertinentibus [DMLBS Reg. Exon. (1556) 1368]
4. [B25] ... La vjme est de damas blanc brodé d’ymages ... [B26] ymaiges brodez de soy et de petites perles par les lisiers ... [B28] ... une autre drap d’autel ... a ung coronnement Nostre Dame ou milleu ... et pluseurs ymages de chascun costé du brodeure ... [B30] ... ung ciel et ung dossier tenans ensemble ... [B36] ... une touaille d'autel paree, de semblable drap comme lesdites tables, a demy ymages en cercles d'or et de soye de petites perles, a franges d'or de cipre e de soye vermeil ... [B37] ... viij tapiz ou draps a parer la chappelle, de satin vermeil Accounts. [AND Bedford Inventories (B25-37) circa 1389/1435]
5. Bi þat watz Gryngolet ... gurde with a sadel Þat glemed ful gayly with mony golde frenges Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 598) circa 1400]
6. [4.226] ... For xxiiii yerdes of brod wythtys for gowns, xxvii s. viii d. ... [4.230] ... To John Dewe for grey lynen cloth and sylk frenge for the hers, vi l. xvi s. ii d. ... A cope called a frogge of worsted for the Prior of Bromholm [MED Paston (4.226-230) 1466]
c.f.: fimbria
AF, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female, Infant    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Accessory; length or section of fringed material, a strip of fringe; also, a head-band.(ante 1150 still in current use)
1. Tute la glorie de lui a la fille del rei dedenz, en frenges orines, envirun coverte de varietez Biblical/Hagiographic. [AND Oxf Ps1 (60.15) circa 1100/1150]
2. [374] ... (1318) It. j parvus pannus de auro de colore hynde ... [381] ... (c1350?) ... In ture, orfrays, teyses, frenges, filo, lychino ... et mundacione ecclesie et candelabri ... [382] ... (1353-4) It. v pec. de frenges et una pecia de orfreis cum albo serico Accounts. [MED Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100 (374-382) 1318/1354]
3. Item, paié a Isabelle Bally pur frenge de soy – ii s. vi d. Item, paié a Maude Dentoun pur frenge de soy – ii s. vii d. Item, paié a Piers Dyker pur amender auterclothes – ii s. iiii d. Accounts. trans., p. 287: Item, paid to Isabelle Bally for silk fringe – 2s. 6d. Item, paid to Maud Denton for silk fringe – 2s. 8d. Item, paid to Piers Dyker for mending the altar cloths – 2s. 4d. [LexP Mercers' Accounts (I.286) 1415/1416]
4. It remayneth iij frangs, one of white damaske a nother of tawny silke. ... iij cowells ij of them bith of diapur and the one is pleyn clothe. Accounts. [MED Invent.Catherine in SANHS 7 (102) 1450]
c.f.: fimbria
AF, ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, From AF/Old French frenge; also cf. Walloon fringe. Probably from L *frimbia, a metathetic alteration of classical L frimbria. The British L form frengia (from 1230) from Old French [DMLBS] (and AF?).
WF:
Etym Cog: frenge (OF).
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