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velvet

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Searchable Lemmata: velvetum (L), velvet (AF), velvet (ME), velvet (Corn), melfed (W), velvet (MdE).
Alternate Forms: felfetum, feluctum, felvetum, felwetum, melved, velfedum, vellewet, veluet, velutum, velvalutia, velvellum, velveta, velwetum, wellvetum.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Textile; luxurious silk textile with a soft, short pile, which is raised in loops above the ground by the introduction of rods during weaving. The loops can be cut or left uncut.(circa 1320 still in current use)
1. [A bed with a whole celure of blue] satyn [embroidered with] ragget staves [on a black] plake [of] velvet ... [8 ells of] westevale [worth 3 s. 4 d.] ... Accounts. [MED Inquis.Miscel.(PRO) (6.172) 1397]
2. Veilles parementz appertenantz al mistere: Item, ils ont delyvree a les avantditz gardeyns par eux esluz les veilles parementz pur lour auter, queux Sire William Hedyngdoun, le chapelein de la mercerye, lour delyvrera, c’est assavoir une chalice d’argent ové le patene [MS: ‘patene enorrez’, the latter word firmly scored out] poisent xvi ounces ii quarterons, pris xlii s. Item, une veille chesible ové les parures de tartaryn raié, une aube et une amyte et une towaille pur estre desuis l’autre, pris tout – viii s. Item, veille huch lié de ferre, pris – x s. Doune de Sire William Hedyngtoun, chapeleyn del mercerye: Item, ils ount delivrez as ditz novelles gardeyns par eux esluz les choses desoutz escriptz queux le dit Sire William Hedyngdoun lour delyvra auxy, et queux mesme Sire William ad dounee de sa bone volentee a la comunealtee de la mistere del mercerye, c’est assavoir une novelle lyvre appellee missale, pris x marcz. Item, une chesible de velvet rouge champ soie embraudé de esteilles d’or ové les parures, aube et amytes, pris – liii s. iii d. Accounts. [trans., p. 233:] Old ornaments belonging to the mistery: Item, they handed over to the aforesaid wardens elected by them the old ornaments for their altar which Sir William Hedyngton, chaplain of the mercers’ mistery, handed over to them, i.e. a silver chalice and paten, weighing 16¾ oz., value 42s. Item, an old chasuble of striped tartarin with its accoutrements, an alb and an amice and a cloth to go over the top of the altar, value of the whole – 8s. Item, an old chest bound with iron, value – 10s. Gift of Sir William Hedyngton, chaplain of the mercers’ mystery: Item, they handed over to the said new wardens elected by them the things written below which the said Sir William Hedyngton had also handed over to them, and which the same Sir William had of his goodwill given to the commonalty of the mercers’ mistery, i.e. a new book called a missal, value 10 marks. Item, a chasuble of red velvet with a silk ground, embroidered with golden stars, with the accoutrements, alb and amice, value – 53s. 4d. [LexP Mercers' Accounts (I.232) 1409/1410]
3. [92] ... j Surcote de Scarleta pro parliamento furrato cum byce. ... [93] ... Vnum integrum vestimentum de blodio damask, orphreyed de motteley veluet ... cum frontell et contrafrontell et parura operata ad modum vnius Burse ... Vnum vestimentum de bustian albo ... j frontell et contrafrontell panni linei styneth [?read: steynet] ... .iij amittas cum parura de albo Tartaryn steyneth [?read: steynet] cum trefoill ... [98] ... j frounte & ij curtyns ... pro j altare ... j frontell cum j frount et j reredos ... j Celur cum j reredos ... j reredos cum j frount et ij curtyns de Tartarin viridi radiato ... v capis de panno adaurato de Lukes albo; j panno adaurato de Lukes veteri ... ij vlnis di. panni adaurati de Lukes blodio ... j panno adaurato de Lukes partito rubeo et viridi ... ij dalmatikes de panno ad aurum de Lukes albo ... ij lynynges de Tartarin ... j de colore viridi et alter de colore nigro ... [99] ... Item vn daggeswayn, pris ij s. Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.70 (92-99) 1415]
4. [2568] ... Þe avawmbrace, vrayllede with siluer. ... [2569] ... Þe gome ... Kerues of at þe coutere with þe clene egge ... Thorowe a dowble vesture of veluett ryche ... [2572] ... The vesere, the aventaile, his vesturis ryche, With the valyant blode was verrede all ouer Arthurian, Heroic, Romance. (work: ?a1400) [MED Morte Arth.(1) ((Thrn) 2568-2572) circa 1440]
5. Lego ... unam capam ... orfraid cum chekty velvet Wills. [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.30 (188) 1441]
6. [45/17] ... I gyff to ouere blissyd lady & hir colage at lincoln ... a hole westment of redveluet cloth of gold & blak, palid with white cloth of gold etwyne ... [45/24] ... Also, I giff to the hous of thornton a cope of redde veluet opon Satyn orfrade with white damaske enbrouded Legal. [MED Lin.DDoc. (45/17-24) 1450/1451]
7. My master delyverd to Willyam Kerver, keper of the Quenes wardroppe, a warant ... fro the Quene to delyver to my ... mastyr vij yerdes of grene velvet Accounts. [MED Acc.Howard in RC 57 (184) 1465]
8. Melved ydyw'r ddwbled ddu Poetic. 'the black doublet is made of velvet'. [GPC LGC (159) circa 1440/1490]
9. Hayl, arluth bold,/ del os sauns per!/ Clothys of gold / ha velvet ker / eu the aray, / damask, boytkyn / inweth cendal, / bys ha satynn,/ ye, porpor pal/ ha pannow gay. Arthurian, Biblical/Hagiographic, Poetic. [LexP BewnKe (Thomas & Williams) (1720-1729) 1450/1500]
c.f.: vellous
AF, Co, L, ME, MdE, SG, W; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male, Female, Infant    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Textile; velvet clothing; a velvet garment.(circa 1400 still in current use)
1. My weddynggown And all my clothis of gold, and clothis of silke ... I woll the howse of Tewkesbery haue hem, saue my Russet vellewet. Wills. [MED EEWills (118/7) 1439]
2. Scho come in a veluet, With white perle ouerfret. Romance. [MED Degrev. ((Thrn) 641) circa 1440]
ME, MdE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, all forms are < Medieval Latin velvetum, veluetum ( Anglo- Latin velwetum, wellvetum, felvetum, felwetum and OF velüet, velüete, velvet), from a Late Latin *villutetum, a diminutive of villutum (< villus 'hairy'; see vellus), which also lies behind words such as vellous (q.v.). The Welsh form melfed arose because /v/ is not possible as the initial sound of a native unmutated word in Welsh, and so the forms in v- were interpreted as mutated from m-, giving a 'hypercorrect' un-mutated form in mel-.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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