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tache

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Searchable Lemmata: taccum (L), tachia (L), tache (AF), tache (ME), tak (ME), taced (W), tache (MdE), tack (MdE).
Alternate Forms: tach, taches, tasche, tasee, tasses.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Accessory; clasp, buckle, lace, brooch or pin; fibula; fastener in various senses (in W usage, emplying a long pin of some type). See etymologies at OED. The verbs tack, tache < nouns are the same 'to fasten', though no particular citations in clothing sense so not given as separate entries here.(circa 1150 - ante 1500)
1. Le vent fu fort e mut bruantache Les pans de son mantel despant, Mes par les taches al col remist Biblical/Hagiographic. [AND S Osith (281) 1150/1250]
2. Crysseu o sidan gwynn a oed am y uorwyn. a chayeu o rudeur rac y bronn. a swrcot o pali eureit ymdanei. ac yscin kyfryw a hi. a thaccet o rudeur yn y chynhal ymdanei. A ractal o rudeur am y phenn. a rudem a gem yn y ractal a mein mererit pob eilwers. ac amherodron vein. A gwregis o rudeur ymdanei. Romance. [GPC WM (91. 181. 31-40) circa 1350]
3. hec camisia: chemise ... hoc antepedale: avantpé ... hoc flammeum: bendel ... hoc sumentum: chauson, hic pecinus, idem ... hoc texale: quissel ... hoc inpedium, enpeigne ... [424.351] ... hec tricatura: tressure ... [424.357] ... hec fibula: tache Gloss. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND TLL (i 424) ante 1300]
4. [27b/b] ... Fibula: boton, or a lace, or a tache ... Fibulo: to botenen or lacen ... [28a] ... Fimbreo: to himnen ... [28b] ... Formella: a souteres last Gloss. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED *Medulla ((Stnh A.1.10) 27b/b-28b) ante 1425]
5. [353] ... The mane in his manytlle syttis at his mete, In paulle purede with pane, fulle precyousely dyghte, Trofelyte and trauerste wythe trewloues in trete ... [355] ... The tasee was [Dc: tasses were; Ir: tassellus were] of topas þat þer to was tyghte ... Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic. (work: a1400) [MED Awntyrs Arth. ((Thrn) 353-5) circa 1440]
6. [4.35.80b] ... Aaron ... had a broche or a tache fastned undir his breest þat was called Rationale, in which was wreten this wordes, 'Discreacion in Iugement, trouthe, & trewe doctrine ... [4.38.82b] ... This is more appertenent ... than ... a traylyng gowne of xii yardes wide Ecclesiastic/Regula. (work: 1413) [MED *Pilgr.Soul ((Eg 615) 4.35.80b-4.38.82b) ante 1500]
c.f.: fibula, atache
AF, L, ME, MdE, W; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French tache (cf. Genevese tache, Languedoc tacho; a nail, hob-nail, tack, or similar; also Spanish tacha, Middle Dutch taetse, Dutch taats).
WF:
Etym Cog: tache (OF).
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