Middle English Dictionary Entry
noir adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | noir adj. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.64 : Sawse Noyre for Capons yrosted. Take the lyuer of Capons and roost it wel; take anyse and greynes de Parys, gyngur, canel, & a lytill crust of brede and grinde it smale, and grynde it up with verious and witþ grece of Capons, boyle it and serue it forth.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.65 : Sawse Noyre for Malard. Take brede and blode iboiled and grynde it and drawe it thurgh a cloth with Vynegur; do þerto powdour of gyngur ad of peper & þe grece of the Maulard, [etc.].