Middle English Dictionary Entry
Milan n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Milan n. Also milain, milen, millein, millon & melan, melain, melein, melen. |
| Etymology | It. & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Milan; (b) habergeoun (viser) of ~, a coat of mail (visor) made in Milan or made of Milan steel; of ~ touche, of the touche of ~, of Milanese make or quality; stamped with the official stamp of Milan.
Associated quotations
a
- (?c1375-a1390) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3589 : Of Melan [vr. Milane] grete Barnabo Viscounte..Why sholde I noght thyn infortune acounte?
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)101/19 : Do þou as I dide at melain [vr. Melan; L in ciuitate Mediolani].
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7023 : If ther be castel or citee Wherynne that ony bouger be, Although that they of Milayn [F Melan] were..He shal have of a corde a loigne.
- c1450(?a1400) Siege Milan (Add 31042)1595 : Oure Oste..graythes þam to Melayne walle.
b
- (1420) EEWills53/22,29 : I will þat Henry Lound haue a blake goun..and a habirgoun of Mylen, opyn be-for..Also I will þat Gerard, my brothir, haue..i habirgoun of millon.
- (1431) Will York in Sur.Soc.3013 : Item, unam loricam de Milan.
- (1456) Invent.Armory in Archaeol.16125 : viij habergouns, some of meleyn and some of Westewale, of the which v of meleyn were delyvered to the College of Eyton.
- (1459) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.12 : He was possessed of xxix harneys of milen touche..he bargayned and bought..þe said xxixti harneys of melentouche clene and complete for xxix buttes of rede rommeney.
- (1464) Acc.Howard in RC 57194 : My mastyr lent hym..a salat wyth a vesere of meleyn.
- 1465(1450) Paston2.155 : And j herneyse complete of the touche of Milleyn.