Searchable Lemmata: gerun (AF), jerin (ME), gyro (L).
Alternate Forms: cheroun, gerauns, gerom, geron, geroun, gerron, gerunis, gerunnis, giron, gironem, gironer, girones, gironet, giroun, girrunnir, girun, giruner, gyron, wyron.
1a(n.)
Body part;
the lap (at the front of the body).(circa 1400)
1. [B15] ... Item, ung petit drap de satin pers, appellé une seoirre, a mettre au giron de l’evesque quant il celebre, semee de fleurs de liz et de cinq papillons ... [B16] ... unes cendales de satin blanc brodés ...
Accounts.
[AND Bedford Inventories (B15-16) circa 1400]
Sex: Male, Female, Infant Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Leg, Waist.
1b(n.)
Garment;
flap, fold, pleat or skirt of a garment; apron (L corio gremiali); the front (lap) part of a garment. Also, a fold, a lappet (more generally); a pleat, fold or skirt (L birris); the flap of a tent. The sole variant attested in an English text (Malory's Morte Arthure, cited below), seems to suggest an outer garment, such as a cloth tunic.(ante 1175 - circa 1440)
1. Si vostre oisel est fel a descharner ... coverez sun oisel (its prey) de vostre gyrun e sur le girun li mustrez un altre oiseil
[AND Glan lex (68C)]
3. thorale et manice et girones, licet, quantum ad vestis partes, diversa habeant nomina, tamen principalis eorum materia est pannus
[DMLBS ROB. ANGL. (Alch. 514a)]
4. debet colligere l garbas [cooperture] et unamquamque garbam tam magnam quantum poterit trahere sub brachio suo dum tenet gironem tunice sue in manu sua
[DMLBS Cust. Glast. (68) 1234]
6. seram dentatam: lime denté, sawe / limam: file/ filum argenteum: fil de argent / cophini: hanepers / ciphi: hanaps / consui: estre cusu ... gremio: gerun
[AND TLL (ii 117) ante 1300]
8. mateaxas: ceren[c]les, hechilis ... casula: un chensel ... armilausas: (vestes tegentes armos .i. scapulos) espalés ... biri: vestur, gironet (l. gironer) ... collobia: frocs, gulunis
Gloss.
[AND TLL (ii 60) ante 1300]
9. facitergium: tuaile a face, kevertur ... birris, gerouns, anglice scurtez, geruns, giruns ... vulpecula: gupil
Gloss.
[AND TLL (ii 66-67) ante 1300]
10. [901] ... Aftyre euesange, sir Arthure ... Wente to hys wardrope and warpe of hys wedez ... [902] ... Sir Arthure ... Armede hym in a acton with orfraeez full ryche, Abouen on þat a jeryn of Acres owte-ouer, Abouen þat a jesseraunt of jentyll maylez, A jupon of Ierodyn jaggede in schredez
Arthurian, Heroic, Romance.
[MED Morte Arth.(1) ((Thrn) 901-5) 1440]
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Leg, Waist.
1c(n.)
Accessory;
hem of a cloth or garment; the fringe of a cloth or garment.(circa 1300)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.)
Body part;
side (of the body); the side (of a garment); etc.(circa 1250 - circa 1350)
1. [1066] ... Kar par devaunt sunt vos escous E d'encoste sunt vos gerouns ... [1068] ... E donez tost a celui pelryn Ke porte un chape de hermin
[AND BIBB ANTS (1066-8) circa 1250]
2. [25] ... voz pennez sont si colurez ... les uns com saunk, les autres desorrez (var. dorretz) ... [34] ... Les chapeleynez ... se affient [taunt] en lur corone e en la reverence qe la gent lur font ... [39] ... Lors fra Dieux, com fet le dobbour de veux dras qi tourne le geron a la peitrine
Poetic.
[AND BOZ Cont (25-39) 1300/1350]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
3(n.)
Decoration;
in heraldry: a gyron, design consisting of a right-angled triangle, typically with the long edge extending from the upper-left corner of the escutcheon to the centre. See gyronny. Borrowed from Middle French as Modern English gyron in the late 16th century.(circa 1590 still in current use)
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Definite, Anglo-French gerun (Old French geron, later giron) 'triangular piece (of cloth), lap, gusset', etc., < Old High German gero 'triangular piece', a cognate of the English word gore (q.v.).
Old French; British L from AF usage.
WF:
Etym Cog: gore (E).
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