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litster

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Searchable Lemmata: litestere (ME), litster (MdE).
Alternate Forms: letester, letestere, licstere, lister, listre, litestere, littester, lystare, lytester, lyster, lytster, lyttester.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Occupation; a dyer.(ante 1350 - post 1875)
1. William de Ipre, licstere. Accounts. [MED Doc.in HMC Rep.9 App.1 (233) 1345]
2. De tenemento Stephani de Grillington, litster in Skelldregate ... vij s. Accounts. [MED Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120 (25) 1379]
3. Lystare, clothe dyynge [Win: or lytaster of cloþ dyynge]: Tinctor. Lexicon. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 307) 1440]
c.f.: dyer, corklitester
ME, MdE.
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, derivation of the verb lit 'to dye' (see lit 1) + agent suffix -(e)ster.
WF: Derivation
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