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garcette (s.xiiiex)

The form garcesce is a cross reference to the following entry:

garcette (s.xiiiex)

garcet,  garcete,  garsette  (garcesce)  
  FEW:  *wrakkjo 17,618a Gdf:  garcete 4,220c GdfC: TL: garcete 4,110 DEAF:  garçon (garcete) G151 DMF:  garcette  TLF:  garcette 1  OED: MED: DMLBS:  garcetta 1050c

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femaleyoung girl
( 1338 )  un [sic] garcesce de .xiij. aunz fut ars  YBB 11-12 Ed III 627
( 1415-17; MS: s.xv1 )  [...] file ou filette, garçon, pusele ou garsette, vadlettez, lour servantz ne lour apprentis, [...]  Liber Donati (D) 25.313
domesticoccupationfemaleservant girl, maidservant
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  agardé vous fut de venir a ceste curt [...] de vous aquyter que vostre garcete ne enporta nul herbe hors de pré le seignur  Court Bar (A) 56
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  od lui mena un [sic] garcette jeone e blounde, pur servir al bon homme, tant com il entendy a sa devocion. La garce fist le bon homme manger du payn e beyvere vyn [...]  BOZ Cont 187
( 1415; MS: s.xv1/4 )  Il ne bosoigne pas pur parler taunt De lour fiz, file ou filette, Garsoun, pusele ou garsette, Valetz, lowys, servantz ne lour apprentys, veysyns  Man lang ANTS 79.6

[gdw]

See also:

garce1  garçun  garçunaille  garçunchel  garçuner 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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