listing
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Searchable Lemmata: listinge (ME), listing (MdE).
Alternate Forms: lesting, lestingges, lystyng, lystynge.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.)
Decoration;
a strip of material, normally the last, edging or selvage; however the oldest citations (not included here) seem to refer to some kind of nautical line or rope.(ante 1300 - post 1850 ?)
2. [97] ... Lego ad vestiendum iijxx pauperes utriusque sexus in panno dicto Coventr' russet walshefresed x l. ... [99] ... j. coverlet ... cum alio coopertorio rubeo habente in lystyng volucres et albas ollas ... Lego ... j nigram chimbre furr' cum calaber ... Item lego ... qwissyngges clothes cum gaytes de arras werke cum duobus banqquers rubeis et nigris.
Wills.
[MED Will York in Sur.Soc.30 (97-99) circa 1444]
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, From the noun list (see list 1) + suffix -ing (so also a noun from the gerund of the verb list 2). The nautical line sense, with several citations in MED, is unknown to OED, and although it could easily be derived from list 'strip of material' it may be in origin a different word.
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