Middle English Dictionary Entry
jujube n.
Entry Info
| Forms | jujube n. |
| Etymology | ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The fruit of the genus Zizyphys.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)74/14 : Take a potel of water & of barly clensid..juiube [L iuiube], sebesten ana, [etc.].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)182/22 : Colre schal be purgid in þis maner..sebesten xv in noumbre, iuiubas xx, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)186a/b : Take þre pintes of wheie of gotes milke, juiube, selesteum [?read: sebesteum]..bole armoniak.