glaucus

Searchable Lemmata: glauceus (L), glaucus (L), glauc (AF).

Alternate Forms: glaucum, clauco, glauca, glaucis, glaucos, glauci, clauci, glauce.

Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) ; colour term; a dark colour, silvery-grey, greyish-blue, green or blue, but by the fourteenth century used in England for yellow (silk or wool), Monnas, L. (forthcoming 2014).(circa 800 - circa 1000)

1. Glaucus color est ferrugineus subniger. Elbidum ab elbo colore vocatum; elbum est enim medius color inter nigrum et album, et elbum ab albo dirivatum. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,28,7)]

2. Glaucus græg. [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (119400 (1194))]

3. Ceruleus uiridis ł glaucus. [DOE CorpGl 2 (Hessels) (143200 (3.233))]

4. Glaucum heauui grei. [DOE CorpGl 2 (Hessels) (368400 (7.117))]

5. Ceruleus .i. glaucus grene hæwen fah deorc color est inter album et nigrum subniger. [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (075500 (C698))]

6. glauco .i. albo ł rubro blæhæwenre. Gloss. [DOE AldV 1 (Goossens) (0612 (612))]

c.f.: grey, green

Ceremonial: No

Body Parts:

1b(n.) Textile; greyish-yellow colour (but perhaps yellow or orange - cf. AND2); also by extension, a fabric of this colour. Staniland (1986) demonstrates that panni glaucus must mean yellow cloth in the context of making the leopards on the coat of arms on Edward III's jousting tunic (1345-9).(circa 1300 - 1440)

1. [p. 229] ... (PROME item 630) vii copes de velvet cremosy, sengle et nient garnisez, pris le pece .xlvi. s. .viij. d.; xvi.li .vi. s. .viij. d. ... (645) i cope de chamelet rouge d’or, les orfreys de velvet bloy, pris .xlvi. s. .viij. d. ... (662) Chesible de velvet vert playn, ovec III aubes, les orfreis enbroudés ovec signes. Item, II autr' clothes, I frountell de tarterin vert, II curteynes raiés de tarterin, ovec I stole, II phanons ... (668) Item, i chesible de damask bloy, les orfreis de velvet rouge et noier enbroudes, ovec .i. aube, et .i. amyte, pris .xxxvi. s. .viij. d. ... (675) Item, .viij. cropers de velvet d'or rouge, frengez et usez, et chescun croper de .vi. hangers, pris .iiij.li. ... (678) Item, .xi. horshouses de rouge drap, pris le pece .xx. d.; .xviij. s. .iiij. d. ... (679) Item, .vij. horshouses de rouge drap, pris le pece .vi. s. .viij. d.; .xlvi. s. .viij. d. ... [p. 230] ... i lite de soy baudekyn, blanc vert & glauc pale ... [p. 231] ... III carpettz de lether ... ii pair’ de draps champayn fyn ... Item, i esparver palez de tarterin vert, blanc & vermaille Legal. [LexP PROME (Hen. VI: Parl. of Oct. 1423, items 630+) 1423]

2. brachia: coreis ... glauce: gloey Gloss. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND TLL (ii 5) ante 1300]

3. [37] ... unum doublett' de velvetto glauco ... duos lectos ... coloris glauci et rub' ... [39] ... xxxij aguyllett' cum punctis de cupro ... [43] ... supertunice de worste' rub' guttare cum auro ... unum hernes' de bokeram' albo ... extencellato cum argento ... [44] ... unum doublettum ... habentem circa manicas et *fimbriam unam borduram de panno longo Accounts. (also cf. KR Ac 391/15) [DMLBS Arch. (XXXI 37-44) 1349]

4. j lectisternium glauci et rubii coloris ... j lectus rubius cum flore lilii de glauco colore Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Durh. (120) ante 1379]

5. corona de corio cooperto cum glauco welviet ... pro astiludiis Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Durh. (434) 1383]

6. [1] ... unum lectum cum textura de glauco cum avibus de blodio ... [3] ... lectus rubius ... , caelatura rubia et iij curtine rubie pro eadem. Wills. [DMLBS Test. Ebor. (III 1-3) 1395]

7. [536] ... 3arne wyndel, or gawyndel: Girgillus ... [537] ... 3elhwe [Win: 3elhewe] of colure: Glaucus Lexicon. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 536-7) 1440]

c.f.: yellow

AF, L.

Ceremonial: No

Body Parts: N/A.

Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical L glaucus, from whence British L glaucus and glauceus.

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