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poleine1 (c.1325)

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

poleine1 (c.1325)

polaine,  polane,  polayne  
  FEW:  polanin 20,42a Gdf:  poulaine 6,347b GdfC: TL: polaine 7,1371 DEAF:  pol 2 (polaine)  DMF:  poulaine  TLF:  poulaine  OED:  poulaine n.  MED:  polaine n.2  DMLBS:  Polanus 1 2331b

a.

cire poleine
Polish wax, type of wax imported from Poland
( 1485-1509 )  le brocour avera pur brocage […] cire pullain pur la pese – iiij d.  TNA E163/9/21 f.20v

s.

1footwearcostumeshoe or boot with long pointed toe (fashionable in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and believed to have originated in Poland)
( 1399; MS: s.xv1 )  [...] ma chause, mes soule[r]s, mes gans, mes polaines, mes hosiale, mes esperons  Man lang ANTS 51.27
footwearcostumepike, long pointed toe of such a shoe
( 1464-65 )  Qe nulle persone cordewaner [...] face [...] ascuns solers, galoges ou huseus oveque ascun pike ou poleine qe passera la longeur [...] de deux poutz  Stats ii 414
2skinssquirrel-fur (originally imported from Poland)
( c.1325 )  Polane est esquireux neirs  MED polaine n.2
( MS: 1419 )  Et qe nul pelleter desormés, [...] ne face furrure de meyns qe de .l. peaux, issi qu'il soit de .vj. ties long, et ceo d'une manere de oevere et nemye medlee; cestassavoir, grys oevere par soy; pur novelle pople par soy; polayne rouge (var. polane veu) par soy; roskyn par soy [...]  Lib Alb 279

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See also:

Polonie 
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polaine