Middle English Dictionary Entry
frenǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | frenǧe n. Also frang. |
| Etymology | OF frenge, F frange. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An ornamental border of cloth or thread (on a garment, saddle, etc.), a fringe; (b) an ornamental strip suitable for use as a border on clothing, etc; esp., fringe material sold in lengths.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fri.(Manly-Rickert)D.1383 : He hadde..An hat vpon his heed with frenges blake.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)598 : Bi þat watz Gryngolet..gurde with a sadel Þat glemed ful gayly with mony golde frenges.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)178 : Frenge, or lyoure: Tenia, glossa Merarii [vr. orarium].
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1318 : And many ryban and many frenges Were on her clothes trewely.
- (?c1450) R.St.Edmund in Archaeol.42403 : ij new frontels with frenges of silk.
- (1458) Acc.All Sts.Tilney23 : Pro sylke frenge bokeram et threde et canvase.
- (1466) Paston (Gairdner)4.230 : For grey lynen cloth and sylk frenge for the hers.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)51b : Frenge: fimbria, vbi heme.
- a1500 *Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149:Hulme)259b : Y dyd but touche the frenge of hys clothynge.
b
- (1353-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100382 : It. v pec. de frenges et una pecia de orfreis cum albo serico.
- (1407-8) Doc.in Rec.B.Nottingham 2 ()52 : Pro uno riben frenge de cirico, xvijd.
- (1422-3) Acc.Met.Col.in Archaeol.J.665 : Pro lacys et frenge.
- (c1450) Invent.Catherine in SANHS 7102 : It remayneth iij frangs, one of white damaske a nother of tawny silke.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31396 : Payd for the makyng of ijo passyon baners: For Tartaryn; For the frenge; For the stauys; For the ijo Crossys.
- (1464) Acc.Howard in RC 57252 : Item, for viij unc. and di. off frenge off sylke.