Searchable Lemmata: hure (AF), hura (L), hure (ME), hur (W), hure (MdE).
Alternate Forms: heure, heuris, hoir, huir, huire, hures, huretz, hurez, huris, huyre, hvir, hwir, ure.
1a(n.)
Headgear;
a covering for the head; a cap or hat. Often the term referred to a monastic or ecclesiastical cap; 'felt cap, hat' [AND]; 'made of coarse felt or (?) fur' (DMLBS IV, 1186). Cf. hurer, hurette.(ante 1175 - post 1450 ?)
2. monachi ... nec fimbrias in subsellis nec pilleas qui hure vocantur habere presumant (Vis. S. Mary's, York)
Ecclesiastic/Regula.
[DMLBS EHR (XLVI 450b) 1206]
4. [19] ... Þer sit an old cherl in a blake hure ... [22] ... Furst þer sit an old cherl in a blake hure ... An heme in an herygoud wiþ honginde sleuen ... [46] ... Nou wol vch fol clerc ... come to countene court, couren in a cope ... [55] ... Þer stont vp a 3eolumon, 3e3eþ wiþ a 3erde ... ant cleopeþ Magge ant Malle
Historic, Poetic.
[MED Ne mai no lewed ((Hrl 2253) 19-55) circa 1325]
5. judicium et combustio de falsis cappis et heuris (cf. Cal. LB Lond. H p. 403 [1394]: judicium et combustio de falsis cappes)
Historic.
[DMLBS MGL (I 607) circa 1394]
9. [1-2] ... in youre citee of London of haberdasshers and hatters that where þe hurers other wise clepud cappers ... to have þe serche of alle them that selle or make hures bonetz and cappes withinne þe said citee and iiii mile aboute ... [9] ... werkers of the said hures bonetz and cappes þat have ben dayly living therby the which if the said hurerz had the serche over hem ... [12] ... it shuld cause grete derthe of hures bonetz and cappes for every hure bonette and cappe wherof is now grete plente and easy price ...
Legal.
[LexP NA [PRO] SC 8/307/15336 (1-12) 1448]
10. [470] ... ordeignez est & enactez par l’auctorite suisdit qe null maner person ... use a le dit feste ascune Robe appellé gowne ou manteau, sinon y soit de tiel longieur come celluy esteant tout droit covera sez privez membrez & crupez ou nagez ... [473] ... qe null person, hurer, capper ou autre quelconque aprés la dit feste de Pasqe mette ou cause d’estre misez ascuns hurez, bonettes ou cappez doublez ou senglez estre fullez ou condensez au ascun tiel molyn ... sur payn de forfair et perder lez lez huretz (var. lez hures) , bonettes et cappez
Legal.
[AND Stats (ii 470-473) 1483]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head.
1b(n.)
Headgear;
mitre? [DMLBS IV, 1186].(circa 1150 - 1250 ?)
1. [152] ... rex [Hen. II] ... inquit: 'copiam eorum que a te impetrata sunt privilegioa ... , appellta "cornuta", ostende'; dicebant enim ea esse 'cornuta' propter mitre speciem et pontificalia ornamenta ... [156] ... [episcopus Lincolniensis] per capitis sui galerum, qui hura dicitur, resignavit id juris quod dicebat se habere in ecclesia B. Albani
Historic.
[DMLBS G.S. Alb. (I 152-156)]
Sex: Male Use: Ecclesiastical Status: High Rank: High Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head.
Definite, ultimately from Old French, first attested in the meaning 'fur cap' but also in transferred senses (e.g. the head fur or mane of various animals, or the head itself, which is now the usual sense in modern standard French). Probably from Frankish or another early Germanic borrowing into Old French. Latin hura/heura is derived from AF [DMLBS IV, 1186].
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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