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friseware (1376-77)

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friseware (1376-77)

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

s.

a 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  Stats i 398
( 1377 )  amesnent […] de la terre d’Irlandz sibien draps irreis appelez Fryseware come layne irreise dont tieux draps sont faitz  TNA SC 8/127/6307

See also:

frise1  friser 
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