Middle English Dictionary Entry
gobelet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gobelet n. Also coblet, gobelot, gobilet, goblet, goblot, gobolot. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A drinking vessel, goblet; (b) the amount of liquid held by a goblet, a gobletful; (c) an ornamental representation of a goblet.
Associated quotations
a
- (1391) Will York in Sur.Soc.4157 : j pec' argenti voc' goblett.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1277 : Þay caȝt away..þe goblotes garnyst of sylver.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1475 : Þe gobelotes of golde.
- (1415) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)9.277b : i Cyphum..coopertum..cum vi parvis coblettis.
- (1420) Will York in Sur.Soc.4397 : Sex gobletts.
- (1424) EEWills56/7 : My wille is þat Thomas, my sone, haue..þre goblettes of syluere, oone couered.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)117b/b : To þis entensioun ministred Aymericus..a pocioun..in þe quantite of a goblet [L vnius gobeleti].
- (a1430) Invent.Randolf in Archaeol.61172 : v Goblettes [F Gobulettz] of a sute wiht the bordures gild.
- (1433) Will York in Sur.Soc.3048 : Edmundo Sandford..unum gobbelet argenti.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)207 : The kyngez cope-borde was closed in siluer, In grete goblettez ouergylte.
- (1442) Invent.Gild in PSAL ser.2.5123 : Item, un' Ewer dargent' continens in se vj goblettes.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)387 : Walid wyne..In grete goblettes of gold yche gome hade.
- (1452-3) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12218 : Item, j goblett ponderis ij unciarum et iij denarios.
- (?1470) Stonor1.114 : Ye bought in London the goblettes and flat pees coverid.
- (1471) Will York in Sur.Soc.45189 : Lego domino Cantuariensi cardinali unum ewer..cum vj goblettes.
- (1482) Paston (Gairdner)6.52 : Item, to Simon Gerard my silver gobelet.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)42b/a : And at morne be þer ministred a gobelet [L gobelletus] of pocion or drinke.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)76b/a : Be þere ministred euery day..a litel gobilet [*Ch.(2): a litel glasful].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)181a/a : And o gobolot be ministred to hym goyng to slepe.
c
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)913 : His gloues gaylyche gilte and grauene at the hemmez With graynez and gobelets, glorious of hewe.