Middle English Dictionary Entry
hūre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hūre n. Also huir(e, hvir, hwir, hoir, heure. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A covering for the head, a cap.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)2075 : Þare wende forth on of heom and is huyre of him drouȝ, And is mantel a-non after-ward.
- a1350 Ne mai no lewed (Hrl 2253)19 : Þer sit an old cherl in a blake hure.
- (c1358) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100561 : Et in 4 cultell., 13 par. cerotecar., et 2 lumbar., et 2 hoyrs empt. de Ad. Cuteler per priorem, 18 s. 6 d.
- (c1360) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100563 : In 4 huyrs, 3 cultellis empt. de Ad. Cuteler per Priorem, 6 s. 6 d.
- (1376) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.403 : [The fulling of caps and of] hures [is the chief duty].
- c1400(?c1308) Davy Dreams (LdMisc 622)59 : Vpon his heuede sat an gray hure.
- (1421-2) Visit.Flemyng & Gray25 : Item, iniungimus et mandamus ne canonici predicti vtantur piliis, Anglice dictis hures, in ecclesia nec extra.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)61 : Cappe, or hure, for clerkys: Tena.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)252 : Hwyr [vrr. Hwyre, hvyr, hure], cappe: Tena.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)376 : To know þe kervynge of fische & flesche aftur cockes cure; y hed leuer þe sight of that than A Scarlet hure.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)1.120 : Be not straunge of hatte, hoode, ne hure.
- a1605(?a1500) Lond.Lickpenny (Hrl 542)79 : One bad me by an hewre, my hed to hele.