Middle English Dictionary Entry
haberdash(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | haberdash(e n. Also haberdast. |
| Etymology | From haberdasher . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Various small articles of trade sold by a haberdasher; ~ halle, the hall of a company of haberdasheres; ~ ware, the articles sold by a haberdasher.
Associated quotations
- (1393) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.535 : De Henrico Galt pro diversis parvis mercandisiis vocatis haberdasshe.
- (1402) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.556 : De Matheo Vantryhgt' pro haburdasche.
- c1432 Bishop Notes in PMLA 49 (Cmb Dd.14.2)455 : Nicholas lynton, þe qweseners man, and wyþ diuers walsch scolars, sum of þe Castell..sum of Henxey Hall, sum of Haberdast Hall, wiþ oþer scolers of diuers Hall, maad sawt aȝeyns þis seyd Nicholas Bysshopp.
- (1439) Close R.Hen.VI3.282 : [Nadder, soap, woad or other sort of grocery, or] haberdasshware..[of mercery, grocery or] haberdasshware.
- (1444) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.639 : De Johanne Vyard' alienigena pro i cista cum divers' haberdasshe.
- (1449) Cart.Oseney in OHS 91239 : Ten[ementum] Ailnot, Haburdasshall per Ric. Souton glower.
- a1475 Libel EP (Hrl 4011:Hammond)p.248 : The Scottes ben charged..wt litell mercerye And grete plente of haberdasshe ware.
- a1500(a1451) Commodities Eng.(LdMisc 593)553 : They brynge..Haburdasshewaye [read: Haburdassheware] and many other merchandyse dyvers also.