Middle English Dictionary Entry
miche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | miche n. Also micche. |
| Etymology | OF & ML. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A loaf of white bread.
Associated quotations
- [ (1263) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.2230 : Ita scilicet, quod panis..sit imperpetuum de pondere michae illius loci antiquo. ]
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)296 : Twelf ȝwite Miches [Ashm: loues] men brynguth us eche daye to ore mete; Ate feste of eche hali-daye..Foure-and-twenti loues us comieth.
- ?c1335 Swet ihc hend (Hrl 913)p.83 : He sal sitte in helle flitte Wiþ oute wyn and miche.
- (1358) Anc.Deed (PRO) 4469 : [Sixteen white loaves of full weight, called] myches..[and sixteen black loaves, called] swaynloves.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.195 : [7 white loaves called] miches.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5585 : For he that at mycches [F miches] tweyne Ne valued is in his demeigne.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)153/73 : I xall marryn þo men þat r[yme]n on a myche and þer-inne sette here sacrementys.