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passager (1216-72)
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passager (1216-72)

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passageur;  passajour  
  FEW:  *passare 7,714b Gdf:  passageur 6,22b / passagier 6,22c GdfC: ∅ TL: passagëor 7,428 / passagier 7,428 DEAF:  passer 1 (passageor)  / passer 1 (passagier)  DMF:  passager  / passageur  TLF:  passager 1  OED:  passenger n.  MED:  passager n.  DMLBS:  passagiarius 2134b

The sense of ‘passenger, one who travels’, attested in ME from the mid-fifteenth century, is not present in AN. While the DMBLS has one attestation believed to represent this sense under passagior (3134b) from 1301, it is possible to understand it as referring to a boatman as well.

s.

1ship.occupationboatman, ferryman, one who operates a (passenger-)boat: 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Es vus la nuit de la Tamise Uns hom en estrange vesture Ki s'escrie de hure en ure E ne sesse e ne se alasse: 'Ai leis! passagur ki passe! Ki de la venir me face Bon luer avera, ben sace'  S Edw paris ANTS 2080
( 1330 )  de novel ont les gardeins de passage et les passagers pris plus (=money for ferrying)  Stats I 263
( 1337 )  les passagers ne suffrent nul burgeis passer saunz paier passage  Northern Pet 25
( 1400-01 )  qe chescun passager ové ses vitailles [...] purra passer  Rot Parl1 iii 476
2ship.merch.transport-ship, boat used to transport goods: 
( 1297 )  vos chevaux [...] passeront ou en les passagers de Dovere ou en bones niefs autres  Crisis 105
3 name (used as a surname): 
( 1216-72 )  Robert le Passager  Family Names Passenger

a.

marchaunt passager
merch.itinerant, travelling merchant: 
( 1327 )  et le (=the stolen vessel) vendent as marchauntz passajours pur le porter hors de ceste terre  Goldsmiths 64
nef passagere
ship.merch.transport-ship, boat used to transport goods: 
( 1298 )  E veut le roi qe les nefs passageres de Dovre viegnent entre les autres pur porter chevaus  Crisis 193
( 1312 )  nule nef passagere ne passe mesk par turn, et c'est asaver chescune nef treys fares, si tost com il poira bonements fere, et aprés les treys fare parfetes et complies, cele nef ne passera en fare de passage tant par tutes les nefs passageres que sunt en la compaignie de Ferschip eyent fet en meme la manere lur treyes fares  Dover Charters 34

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See also:

passable  passage  passager  passant  passaument  passe1  passer1  passer3 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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