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tire

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Searchable Lemmata: tira (L), tire (AF), tir (ME), tire (ME), tire (MdE).
Alternate Forms: tera, tyr, tyre, tyres, tyrys.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Garment; variant form of the word attire (q.v.): general term for an outfit, suit of clothing, or general appearance and decoration.(circa 1375)
1. vous mandons que [...] facés deliverer choses necessaires [...] par (l. pur) la tire de la test nostre dite tres amee compaigne Accounts. [AND GAUNT1 (ii 107) 1372/1376]
2. Sche in þat tyr was tiffed. Romance. [MED WPal. ((KC 13) 1725) ante 1375]
AF, ME; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Entire Body.
1b(n.) Garment; the equipment and trappings of a knight.(ante 1300 - circa 1500)
1. His tire it was ful gay ... On þat helme stode a flour; Wrou3t it was of diuers colour Heroic, Romance. (work: a1300?; citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Guy(2) ((Auch) p.590) circa 1330]
2. Lambard sent his stede, His shelde, his jren wede; His tire was stoute and gaye. Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: a1400) [MED Libeaus ((Lamb 306) 1628) ante 1500]
ME; Primarily Romance.
Sex: Male    Use: Military    Status: High    Rank: High    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Entire Body.
2a(n.) ; an edging or decorative strip, consisting of rows ('tiers') of gems, fur, etc. The Revised Medieval Latin Word-List also notes instances of this sense in Latin (tira) for 1301 and 1397 (no citations available). so-called because such strips or rows 'attire' a piece of cloth, garment or similar.(circa 1300 - ante 1500)
1. To the performyng of the said fourrure went iii tyrys of the surcot ... to the parformyng of the said manntel fourred with ermynes went a paire of gret slyves and a tyre and half of the surcot. Accounts. [MED Invent.Q.Katherine in Sus.AC 37 ((Add 32645) 174) 1437]
2. Lego ... Katerinæ ... ij annulos aureos ... cum j par tyres de perle Wills. [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.30 (194) 1454]
L, ME, MdE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2b(n.) Headgear; a woman's ornamented headdress or snood; possibly due to confusion with L. tiara (itself not borrowed into English until the sixteenth century), or a specific application of tire sense 2a above ('ornamented row or band').(circa 1425 - circa 1885)
1. I beqwethe ... my doghtir Elizabeth a chaplet of perle with double rooses and my doghtir Lore a tyre with double roses of perle. Wills. [MED Reg.Langley in Sur.Soc.169 (63) 1427]
2. Tyre, or a-tyre of wemmene ... in mundanus, redimiculum. Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 494) 1440]
c.f.: redimiculum
ME.
Sex: Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Ultimately from the OF verb atirier.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: tir (ME), attire (MdE).
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