Middle English Dictionary Entry
Fraunce n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Fraunce n. Also France. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) That part of western Europe, varying in extent, which constituted the royal domain of the French kings during the Middle Ages, France; the reaum of ~; also, all of French-speaking Europe; (b) water of ~, a medicinal preparation [see quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1117 : Þa to ðan sumeran com se cyng of France.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1231 : Bi-ȝende France i þet west þu scalt finden a wunsum lond.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1359 : Þe king of Fraunce þat was þo, louwis guod and hende.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)187 : Ac men of france in þulke vuel sone me sucþ amende.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)10.8 : To hire haþ Envye A proud prikere of Fraunce.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1306 : In al the reawme of France is ther no wyf That lasse lust hath to that sory pley.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1118 : Whiles he was at Orliens in Fraunce..a book he say Of magyk naturel.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)1.192 : Ther was no raton of al þe route, for al þe reame of fraunce, Þa þerste haue bounde þe belle aboute þe cattes necke.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)5.125 : Alle rome-renners, for robbers in fraunce, Bere no suluer ouer see.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.3391 : Herry þe Fyfþe..is iustly born To regne in Fraunce by lyneal discent.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)495 : Therynne were briddes mo..Than ben in all the rewme of Fraunce.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3435 : And yit ne wold I, for all Fraunce, Do thyng to do you displesaunce.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6492 : I love bettir th'acqueyntaunce..of the kyng of Fraunce Than of a pore man of mylde mod.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)677 : The note [of the roundel], I trowe, imaked was in Fraunce.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)177 : Fraunce, londe: Francia.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)5/31 : Lede vs to the coste of Fraunce.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)51b : France: francia, gallia.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)142 : A man of Fraunce: francus, francigena, gallus.
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)746 : Nowe wendyth Gye to justynge In Almayn and in Lumbardye, Yn Frawnce and in Normandye.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189b/b : Water of Fraunce: Take of tartir calcyned 1 pounde, of mastik 1 vnce. Braye ham wiþ whites of ayren and putte ham in a lambik and make þerof a water.