Two Middle English Lexical Notes.
- Author / Editor
- Baugh, Albert C.
Two Middle English Lexical Notes.
- Published
- Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 37 (1961): 539-43.
- Description
- Offers evidence that "embosed" in BD 352-53 means that the deer "had well concealed itself in a thicket and was not easy to find" and that the meaning of "double worstede" (Friar's cloak; GP 1.262) is worsted fabric of "considerable width."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Book of the Duchess
Friar and His Tale