mailed
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Searchable Lemmata: maillé (AF), maillen (ME), mailed (MdE).
Alternate Forms: imailed, j-mailled, mailid, maillez, mayled, y-mayled.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(adj.)
Utilisation;
made of mail; covered in mail; dressed in or armed with chain mail armour. Also with extended and fig. senses (for example, to describe the feathers of an eagle, or the scales of a dragon).(ante 1250 still in current use)
Sex: Male Use: Military Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
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Etymological Evidence:
Definite, in both AF and ME, adjectival/past participle forms, either directly from the noun mail (see mail 1) or from the verb mail (see mail 2). The latter verb is not attested in AF, where the verb mailler (< CL malleus) meant 'to hammer' (cf. English maul, a borrowing of the same word) and originally etymologically distinct, though it is possible that in some instances maillé was understood to mean 'hammered' (as in the hammering of metal rings together).
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