friseware (1376-77)
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friseware (1376-77)

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[ FEW: *3,794a frigere 1; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF:  fris (*); DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED:  frieze n.1 (frieze-ware); MED:  frise n.2 (frise ware); DMLBS: ∅ ]
fryseware  
ls(loanword: compound with M.E.)
le

s.

1a kind of coarse woollen cloth with a thick nap on one side (originally produced in Ireland): 
( 1376-77 )  des draps appellez friseware, queux sount faitz en Irland, ou autrement en Engleterre de leynes irreises amesnés deinz le roialme d’Engleterre  i 398
( 1377 )  amesnent […] de la terre d’Irlandz sibien draps irreis appelez Fryseware come layne irreise dont tieux draps sont faitz  SC 8/127/6307
frise#1  friser 
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