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pudrebox (1378-79)

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pudrebox (1378-79)

pouderbox,  pouderboxe,  poudrebox  
  FEW:  pulvis 9,563b Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  poudre (poudrebox)  DMF: TLF: OED:  powder box n.  MED:  poudre n.1 (poudre box)  DMLBS:
ls(loanword: compound with M.E.)
le

s.

box for holding powder (spices, face powder, gunpowder etc.)
( 1378-79 )  Item, un poudrebox d'argent ové les swages enorrez  E101/400/6
( 1403-04 )  pomelx d'espeies, poudreboxes, lienes et burselles pur hanapes [...]  iii 541
( 1404-05 )  Ordeignez est et establiez qe nulle arteficer [...] desorenavant suisore ne suisargente nulle tielx firmaux, anelx, [....] hiltes ne pomelx pur espeies, pouderboxes, liens ne bursels pur hanapes [...]  316
( 1423 )  i. covercle d'un potte, .i. pouderbox, .ij. covercles de .ij. salers [...]  iv 222.309

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See also:

pudre  pudré1  pudrer  pudrere  pudrette  pudrier  pudrus  pussire 
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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