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rouge

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Searchable Lemmata: ruge (AF), rouge (ME), rouge (MdE).
Alternate Forms: roge, rouge, ruge, ruige, rouȜ.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(adj.) Dye; red in colour.(ante 1425 still in current use)
1. [p. 233] (PROME item 770) Item, .i. autre pane de blanket, les bordures de rouge baudekyn, furrez de menever pur, pris .iiij.li. (771) Item, .i. autre pane de taune, furrez de gros menever, pris de tout .xxvi. s. .viij. d. (772) Item, .i. carpet bien veille contenant .ix. verges .iij. quarters, pris .xiij. s. .iiij. d. Summa .xiiij. pagine: .viij c vij.li. .ij. s. .i. d. (773) Item, .i. lite d'arras des cheries, le testour contenant .iiij. verges demi en longure et .iij. verges en large, en tout .xiij. verges demi quarrez. Item, le celour contenant .iiij. verges en longure et .iiij. verges en large, en tout .xvi. verges quarrez. Item, le counterpoynt contenant .vi. verges en longure et .v. verges demi de large, contenant .xxxiij. verges quarrez. Item, .i. tapite d'arras ovec shepeherdes contenant .vij. verges demi en longure et .v. verges de large, contenant .xxxvij. vergez demi quarrez. Item, .i. autre tapite de mesme le suyte contenant .vij. verges demi de longure et .v. verges de large, en tout .xxxvij. verges demi. Item, .i. autre tapite de mesme la suyte contenant .vij. verges demi de longure et .v. verges de large, en tout .xxxvij. vergez demi. Summa des verges .clxxv. verges, pris le verge .iij. s. .iiij. d., .xxix.li. .iij. s. .iiij. d. [p. 234] (item 802) Item, .xxij. fethirbeddes ovec taunt de bolsters de plume, pris le pece ensemble .x. s., .xi.li. ... (820) Item, divers remenaunts de marterons et ventres des ermyns, contenant .liiij., pris ensemble .vi.li. .xiij. s. .iiij. d. ... (826) Item, .i. lite des plumes ovec .i. bolster, pris .xx s. ... (828) Item, .iij. tapites de worsted rouge et .i. petite carpet en le chapelle, pris .viij. s. Legal. Citations from AND compared against and extended with PROME [Parliamentary Records of Medieval England]; W. M. Ormrod (ed.), 'Henry VI: Parliament of October 1423, Text and Translation', in The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. C. Given-Wilson et al., pp. 233-4, items 770-828. Internet version, at http://www.sd-editions.com/PROME, accessed on 3 August 2010. Scholarly Digital Editions, Leicester: 2005. [AND RotParl1 (iv 233-234) 1423]
2. [55/b/a] ... Redimiclium: a crowne or a bende. ... [56b/b] ... Ruphus: rubeus or rou3 Gloss. [MED *Medulla ((Stnh A.1.10) 55b/a-56b/b) ante 1425]
c.f.: red
AF, ME, MdE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) ; the colour red; red dye.(ante 1300 still in current use)
1. Item, delivered ... an ymage ... garnized with roses maad with rougeclere. Accounts. [MED Proc.Privy C. (5.62) 1437]
AF, ME, MdE.
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Anglo-French/Old French, ultimately < Latin rubeus ('red', displacing earlier ruber), with consonantal -j- derived from the semivowel -e- of rubeus. Appears as early as 1167 in British placenames (Rougemond, West Riding, Yorkshire - s.v. 'rouge (adj.)', MED), but not attested as a borrowing into Middle English until the fifteenth century. Modern English rouge 'cosmetic' is a usage attested from the eighteenth century, but which had existed in continental French since the medieval period.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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