pautener
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Searchable Lemmata: pautenere (ME), pautonera (L), pautener (MdE).
Alternate Forms: panteneers, pantener, paukener, pauteneers, pauntener, pautener, pautnere, pautoneriis, pawltner.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
bag, pouch, purse or wallet; a moneypurse.(circa 1290 - post 1650)
1. insidientur ... trituratores et ventrices ne quicquam bladi furentur in suis sotularibus, cirotecis, ... bursis seu pautoneriis
Legal.
[DMLBS Fleta (170) circa 1290]
8. [384] ... Parowre of a vestyment: Paratura, vel parura ... [385] ... Party Clothe, or clothe made of dyuers colowrys: Pannucia ... Pateyne, fote vp berynge [vr. pateyne of tymbyre]: Calopodium, ferripodium ... [387] ... Pawtenere: Cassidile
Gloss.
[MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 384-7) 1440]
9. [137] ... Boystows she was ... And clothed with an old gret bultel [F burel] clouted with cloutes of old cloth ...
[148] ... Trewaundrie ... can no thing doo but make cloutes and panteneers [read: pauteneers; F pautonnieres] and bagges.
[MED Pilgr.LM ((Cmb Ff.5.30) 137-148) circa 1450]
Sex: N/A Use: Secular Status: Low Rank: Low Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Speculative, OED suggests either from Italian paltoniere 'beggar's bag' (< paltoniere 'beggar'), or Middle French pautonniere 'purse', which is attested later (c. 1419). However, given the forms and context the word is more likely to be French.
AF/ME pautener most commonly meant 'rogue, scoundrel'; also 'prostitute' etc. and is normally held to be from a root cognate with MLG palte 'scrap, piece of cloth' + agent suffix, with the parallel development of the bag/rogue senses comparable to German Lump 'rascal' and Lumpen 'rag'.
Forms in pan- (normally always in the sense 'rascal, villain') are probably due to a scribal misreading of pau-.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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