Middle English Dictionary Entry
flāvǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | flāvǒur n. |
| Etymology | OF flaur; ME flavǒur has v from sāvǒur. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An odor (usu. pleasant), fragrance; the smell (of a fire); flavour of fame, reputation [for this mg., cp. odour.]
Associated quotations
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)87 : So frech flauorez of frytez were, As fode hit con me fayre refete.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.676 : And Zephirus..With sugred flavour..in þe eyr gan smyte.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)239 : A flauour [vr. sauoure] flambeþ þer fro..Was neuer odour ne eyr vpon erþe swetter.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)90 : He schulde thanne haue more thanke and reward..more noble flauour of digne fame among alle the princis of the world.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)18853 : This Lawnde..was so fair & so delicyous and so swete of flavour.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)1286 : Þe flauour of þat feyre he tastede sone.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)131.502 (v.2:p.353) : Yt passyd excellently the odour of alle maner sweet and delycious onymentis [?read: oynementis], ner yt myght be lyknyd to the flauour of noon natural thyng ner artificial.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)95/150 : The spouse..Hath medled his myrre most delycious With hys swete flauoures.
- a1500 Goe lytyll byll (Dc 326)33 : Her flauour excedith the fflowrdelyce.