Middle English Dictionary Entry
dresser n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dresser n. Also dressour, -ur, dresceour. |
| Etymology | From dressen or AF. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A guide, director; (b) one who prepares, finishes, or dresses; -- as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)110/23 : An intellectual vertu..which is prudence, forto be dresser and reuler of alle þe moral vertues.
- c1450 *Bonav.Medit.(4) (MSU 1)10 : For to be owre leder & our dresser to..þe kyngdome of heuyn.
b
- 1300 Inquis.PM Edw.I in BRS 37 [OD col.]277 : Thomas le Dresceour.
- (1323) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms207 : Rob. le Dressour.
- (1332) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms207 : Ad. Dressur.
- (1360) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59268 : John le Dressour.