Middle English Dictionary Entry
fagge n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | fagge n.(1) Also fag. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A broken thread or 'knot' (in cloth); (b) fag fetheres, see quot.
Associated quotations
a
- (1463-4) RParl.5.501b : In case that eny such diversite, or rawe, scawe, kokell or fagge happen to be in eny part of the seid Clothes.
b
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf b i/a : The federis at the wynges next the body be calde the flagg or the fagg federis.