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ufrescrud

, over + shroud.
Searchable Lemmata: ufrescrud.
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; an overgarment; found in glossarial contexts as equivalent of Latin ependytes (q.v.).(ante 1100)
1. Ependeten : cop ł hoppada ł ufrescrud. [DOE AntGl 6 (Kindschi) (0714 (714))]
c.f.: ependytes
OE; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: Male    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE ufer, ufre 'over' (adverbial form, rather than the preposition ofer-) + scrud (see shroud 1) 'covering, garment' etc. The modern English verb 'overshroud' is a coining first attested in the sixteenth century.
WF: Compound
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