Searchable Lemmata: gardecors (AF), gardecorsatum (L), warde-cors (ME), wardecorps (MdE).
Alternate Forms: gardcorps, gardecorps, uardecors, ward cors, warde corce, warde corse, wardecors, wardecorsez, widicoloris.
1a(n.)
Garment;
breech-girdle, belt or band worn across the belly.(ante 1300 - 1400 ?)
1. planetam: pleyn (D) pal (T) pal hairunner (A) / casulam: chape close (CO) cap et pal close (A) cape close (D) chap close (L) pal vel cape cloce (T) ... reculas: de beubelés, beubelés vel jueus, beubloss [sic] , bebielés ... birri: cherouns ... levitonaria: escapeloris, heykis, ekies, heykes, scapoloris, happruns ... armilausas: espaulers, apaulers ... galearia: garland de or (var. chapeus de feutre)
Gloss.
[AND TLL (ii 50) circa 1275/1299]
2. Cestuy garçoun est vestu de la lyveré sa dame, De une bele cote de larcin e de blame, Si at une coyfe de mult orde fame, Un wardecors de abusion
[AND BOZ Char (412) circa 1305]
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Waist.
1b(n.)
Garment;
outer garment; in some instances, a cloak or mantle, in others, a gambeson or padded tunic (worn under the armour).(ante 1300 - 1500 ?)
1. bombacinia: aketun (vars. haketouns, purpoyns, purpoyntis) ... rubea: wayd, en brasil ... galeros: chapel de quir, heumis ... ocreas: heses, hoseus, chausis de fer, esses ... toraces: wambesouns (vars. gambaysuns, gambisum vel uardecors, wadesuns)
Gloss.
[AND TLL (ii 136) ante 1300]
3. [516] ... Warde corce [Win: Ward cors], clothe: Tunica, tunicella ... Warde rope, of clothys: Vestiaria, zaberna vel zabanta ... [517] ... Warpon, as webstarys: Stamino, licio ... [519] ... Webbare, or make[r] of wollyn clothe: Lanifex ... Webbon, or webbe, clothe of lynnyne: Linifico ... Webbynge of wullyne clothe: Lanificium, telaria ... Webbynge of lynnyne: Linificium ... Webstar [Win: Webstare]: Textor, textrix
Lexicon.
[MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 516-9) 1440]
4. [135a] ... A Walke Mylne [Monson: Walke myln]: Molendinum fullonicum ... [135b] ... To Walke clothe: fullare ... To Waltt [vr. Walte]: Intercuciare ... A Waltt [Monson: Walte]: Intercucium ... A Warde corse [Monson: Wardcorse]: Reno ... A Wardnapp [Monson: Wardnape]: limas, limus
Gloss.
[MED *Cath.Angl. ((Add 15562) 135a-b) circa 1475]
Sex: Male Use: Military Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest.
Definite, Anglo-French/Old Northern French wardecors(e), wardecorps etc. consisting of warde 'guard' + cor(p)se 'body, so literally 'guard for the body', and the word is also found in the same sense as English 'bodyguard' and other non-clothing meanings. Anglo-French forms with g- show the standard Old French habit (also extant in some Anglo-Norman dialect) of changing inherited Germanic w- to g(u)- (e.g. the Norman name Willalme versus. OF Guillaume).
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Etym Cog: warde-cors (ME), wardecorps (MdE).
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