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serge

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Searchable Lemmata: sarge (ME), sarge (AN), sargium (L), sargia (L), serge (MdE).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) ; cloth; although the etymology suggests an original association with silk, by the Middle Ages serge was a wool cloth, and by the fourteenth century was a woollen-and worsted mix, less expensive than woollens. Used as hangings or furnishing. Having varied qualities over the years, the term is often found modified by place names or other adjectives, suggesting that there was not a standard quality of material; see Chambers (2012)b.(circa 1400)
1. To the lystes rit the compaignye ... thurgh out the citee large, Hanged with clooth of gold and noght with sarge. Poetic, Romance. [MED Chaucer CT.Kn. ((Manly-Rickert) A.2568) circa 1385]
2. Unum riddel, unum sarge, et unum peyntidkloth veteres ad vj d. Legal. [MED in Rec.B.Nottingham 1 (246) circa 1390]
3. [101] ... super cooperatura et cloutacione jakks et dublets vj dubelet, valor xiij s. iiij dublet ... [106] ... xxv mantel de bogee, valor vj li. ... [107] ... iij litz de sarge, valor iiij li. ... [108] ... j. bale, contenu .lxx. coverlitz dit eperling Accounts. [AND Port Bks (101-108) 1427/1430]
4. x. blanketez de Whiteney un lit ... un coverture, ... une sarge, deux pair de linchiaux ... deux blanketes ... une douszaine pair de soliers [AND Man lang (49) 1396]
5. cervical: orirel / bissus: cheysil / lodex: veluse / sargium: sarge / taxus: tessun / taxum : lart / taxo : bargaynSargium glosses "sagio" in the following line from Alexander Naquem's de Utensilibus: Deinde coopertorium viridi sagio munitum, penula taxea vel catina vel beverina subponanatur [TLL 1,182,41]. [AND TLL (2,83,2-3)]
6. sagana: gallice sarge (C) anglice sarge, sai (D) sarge, say (T) [AND TLL (2,29,14)]
7. lintheamina: lincheus (C) lincés (L) / lodices : laungel, witel (C) langeus, weytil, gallice langers (D) langes (L) / ex sindone: sendel (C) cendel (D) / sagio : saye (C) sarge (DL)Sarge glosses 'sagio' in the following line from Alexander Naquem's de Utensilibus: Deinde coopertorium viridi sagio munitum, penula taxea vel catina vel beverina subponanatur [TLL 1,182,41]. [AND TLL (2,68,13-14)]
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Ceremonial: No
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1b(n.) ; haircloth used as a roof in a Jewish tabernacle; made of goat. This use is found in Biblical translations.(circa 1300 - ante 1425)
1. [26.4-5] ... Lytill oiletis [alt. from: ryngis; L Ansulas] Iasynctyns in þe sydis & in þe ouermostis of þe corteyns þou schalt make, þat þei mown be couplid to gyþers. Þe cortyne schall haue fyfty oiletis [alt. from: ringis; L ansulas] in eyþer party so sett inne þat o oilete [alt. from: ringe] may comme a3eyns anoþer ... [26.6] ... Þou schalt make fyfty golden ceerclis, with þe wich þe veylis [L vela] of þe corteins ben to be Ioynyd ... [26.7-8] ... Þou schalt make elleuen herene sargys [alt. from: saye couertours of heere; WB(2): saies; L saga] to couer þe rofe of þe tabernacle; þe leynþ of þe to sarge [alt. from: say; WB(2): o say; L sagi unius] schal haue þritty cobitis & þe brede foure. Biblical/Hagiographic. facies et saga cilicina undecim ad operiendum tectum tabernaculii longitudo sagi unius habebit triginta cubitoset latitudo quattuor aequa erit mensura sagorum omnium [Ex 26,7-8]. [MED WBible(1) ((Bod 959) Ex.26.4-8) ante 1382]
2. He made enleuen sarges of the heeris of goote, to couere the roofe of the tabernacle. Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED WBible(1) ((Corp-O 4) Ex.36.14) ante 1425]
3. unze sarges cilicins a coverer le covertour del tabernacle [AND Bible2 (54va) circa 1300/1325]
c.f.: cilice
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Ceremonial: No
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1c(n.) ; cloth used as a sieve.
1. pollentridium: bolenter / taratantarum: sarge / polen: le flur / eliquatur: seit ors coléThe gloss is applied to the following: Habeat etiam pollentrudium et taratantarum, ut illo pollen eliquatur, illo servisia coletur, specificetur et peurgetur [TLL 1,186,22-23]. [AND TLL (2,89,7)]
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Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French serge, sarge; from Classical L serica, etc.
WF:
Etym Cog: serge (MdFr), sarga (MdSp), serica (L).
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