Middle English Dictionary Entry
fenestre, -er n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fenestre, -er n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)337 : Þo com pare-In a fuyri Arewe at a fenestre a-non.
- ?c1335(a1300) Cokaygne (Hrl 913)114 : Al þe fenestres þat beþ of glasse Turneþ in to cristal briȝt To ȝiue monkes more liȝt.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6383 : He let caste þis traitour..At an fenestre in temese..& let him stilleliche adrenche.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)815 : Sche nere..hir laid doun to slape, Ar hir dore & hir fenester Hadde yblisced.
- (1377) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2313 : Et de xij d in reparacione unius fenestre de glasse.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)94 : Ȝif eny ys þat nymeþ rente of eny tenement..and his rente holleche be by-hynde..by leue of þe baylyues of þe town nyme þe dores and þe fenestres.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.199 : Lo! how men writeth In fenestres atte freres.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.15 : Þanne was faith in a fenestre and cryde 'a! fili dauid!' As doth an Heraude of armes.
- a1425 Lament Virg.(Bod 596)455 : I ros anone and ranne to þe fenestre of my chaumbre and loked oute.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)15053 : As sche atte a fenestre wyndowe lay.
2.
An opening in a surgical instrument.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)308/13 : A scharp instrument þat haþ a fenestre, as it were a nedele.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)54b/b : Be þer had a canule .i. A pipe fenestrate .i. wyndowed..þat bi þe fenestre may [be] seen when þe nedel passeþ.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)141a/b : A canule in whos ende..be a fenestre in which þe vuula be inclosed.