grosso vario
, grosso + vario.
Searchable Lemmata: grosso vario (L).
Alternate Forms: grossi varii.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Raw Material;
grover, untrimmed fur or fur of the whole animal (squirrel), representing Old French 'gros vair' (cf. grover and vair).(ante 1250 - circa 1300 ?)
1. [an. 1251] querat ... ornamenta capelle Margarete filie regis, vis. ... vestimenta, tunicam, dalmaticam, dublicem casulam, viz. festivale et feriale (sic) ... [an. 1256] quando opus fuerit de grosso vario et scendallo
Accounts.
[DMLBS Cl (1) 1251/1256]
2. executores respondent ... de duabus capis de persico furratis de strenlyng'. ... inde ... in legatis duo caparia, ut patet superius ... cloca ... furrata de grosso vario ...
Accounts.
[DMLBS Ac. Exec. Ep. Lond. (56) 1303]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, L grossus (grossus, 'great') + vario (varium, 'vair'); Old French; cf. grover. [In Latham, s.v. 'vari/etas', as 'varium grossum', p. 505].
WF: Compound
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