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wanger

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Searchable Lemmata: wangere (OE), wongere (ME), wanger (MdE).
Alternate Forms: wonger, wongers.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Furnishing; a pillow.(ante 1000 - ante 1400 ?)
1. Ceruical wangere. [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (076000 (757))]
2. Ceruical .i. capitale bolster ł wongere [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (0745 (C686))]
3. [In the chamber ... 5] wongers. Legal. [MED Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh. (155) circa 1373]
4. He nolde slepen in noon hous, But liggen in his hoode, His brighte helm was his wonger [vrr. wongere, wanger, wangere]. Poetic, Romance. [MED Chaucer CT.Kn. ((Manly-Rickert) B.2102) circa 1390]
c.f.: bedbolster, bolster, cervical, cervicarium, gobennydd, head-rail, pillow, plumacius, pulvillus, pulvinar
ME, OE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, derived from Old English wang 'cheek' + agent suffix.
WF: Derivation
Etym Cog: wanger (MHG).
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