Middle English Dictionary Entry
garnement n.
Entry Info
| Forms | garnement n. Also garnament, granement & garment, garement, germent & garlement. Pl. gar(ne)mentes, garnimentz, garnemens, garmentz, garmense. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An article of clothing; esp. an outer garment, a coat, cloak, gown; also fig.; -- sg. & pl.; (b) articles of clothing, garments; also, a person's clothing, attire; -- pl.; (c) one's garments collectively, clothing, dress, attire; -- sg.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)2641 : He let him make a garnement [Cmb Ff.2.38: garment], Ase blak ase ani arnement, And heng þer on squirel tail.
- (c1391) Gower CA Suppl.(Hnt EL 26.A.17)5.144/7189* : I the mantell tok..And for that it was hevy so, Me thoghte it was no garnement..To clothen him the somer tide.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2510 : Many a perled garnement Embroudred was ayein the dai.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)28/9 : Þe sunne þat þis chirche is cladde ynne is þat moost worschipful garment, oure saluacioun.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Apoc.1.13 : Oon lijk to the sone of man, clothid with a long garnement [vr. garment; WB(1): prestly clooth; L podere].
- a1425(?a1400) PCounsel.(Hrl 674)156/24 : He wil be verely cloþid in me, þat am þe side garnement [vr. garment] of loue & of lastyng.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)896 : His garnement [F robe] was everydell Yportreied and ywrought with floures.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)101/35 : Þei gon all bare fote & clothed in euyll garnementes, large wyde but þei ben schorte to the knees.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)77/5 : Þai hafe on ane vnthrifty garement [F garnement]..and it has lang slefez.
- (?a1430) Hoccl.Mir.Virg.(Hnt HM 744)30,35 : Our lady, clothid in a garnement Sleuelees, byfore him he sy appeere..'What garnament is this and hath no sleeue?'
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.867 : The garnement forgid was of gold.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)513 : Wayne, of a garlement: Lacinia.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1880 : He gaffe þam robis of palle..Germentes [Cmb: garnementus] alle halle.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1588 : Þe bald bischop..Was graþid in a garment of gold & of pu[r]pree.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Eliz.Spalb.(Dc 114)108/25 : Sche is..cladde..wiþ a wollen coot next her flesch and with a whyte lynnen garnemente sumwhatly trailynge on þe erthe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)957 : Than his gowne ye gadir of, or garment of his estate.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)114 : Thai weren no wolen, but yf it be a pouere cote vnder thair vttermest garnement.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.B.213 : Euery garment, bothe gowne and hoode, They delte it freely to all the route.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)385 : Ye sholde have sein many a riche garnement and many a bolde knyght.
b
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3207 : Þe quen..bliue dede hem baþe..& greiþed hem gaili in garnemens riche.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1395 : Ryche garnymentz forþ sche drow & by-tok hymen for to were.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.173 : Pees, in pacience yclothed, approched..in her gay garnementz [vr. garmentz; C: garnemens].
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)231 : He hath on him better and costioser and precioser garnementis, as ben his gowne, his cloke, his hood, his cappe.
- (1459) Paston (Gairdner)3.153 : Vestmentes, garlementes of sylke or velwet, of robis, and my gownys, that parcell of hem be yovin to the seyd monastery cherche.
- (1460) Acc.St.John Peterb.in Antiq.51466 : For hyryng of the germentes.
- (1467) Acc.St.John Peterb.in Antiq.51466 : Rec. for latyng of the players garmense, iiij s. vj d.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)391/127 : For all his garmentes gay, that semely were in sight, his flesh shall frete away.
- a1500 Bevis (Chet 8009)55/928 : A Robe gaue Beues the messingere With all the garmentes fresh and clere.
c
- c1390 RSicily (Vrn)248 : Þe ffool Robert also went Cloþed in lodly garnement Wiþ ffoxes tayles mony aboute.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4935 : Of þornes and busshes ben her garnement.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)10.119 : He sente hem forth seluerles in a somer garnement.
- c1400 Wycl.DSins (Bod 647)124 : Als myche pride..as a knyght hafs in his strayte garnement.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2256 : Mayntene thysilf aftir thi rent, Of robe and eke of garnement [F De robes et de chauncemente].
- c1440(?a1400) ?Nassyngton Trin.& U.(Thrn)209 : He did clethe þe in whitte garment.
- c1450 Earth(3) (Lamb 853)15/28 : Out of þis erþe, cam to þis erþe þis wrecchid garnement To hide þis erþe, to happe þis erþe, to him was cloþinge lente.
- c1450 PPl.B (RwlPoet 38)13.400 : Gloutoun with grete othes his granement hadde soyled.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)1399 : Hys garnement..Was of lyne cloth al whyt.