Polysemy in Middle English 'Embosen' and the Hart of The Book of the Duchess

Author / Editor
Scott-Macnab, David.

Title
Polysemy in Middle English 'Embosen' and the Hart of The Book of the Duchess

Published
Leeds Studies in English 36 (2005): 175-94.

Description
Critics generally gloss "embosen" as either "concealed in the woods" or "exhausted from the hunt." Examination of the word determines its precise meaning as a hunting term and also sheds light on Octovyen's hunt.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Language and Word Studies.