Middle English Dictionary Entry
aube n.
Entry Info
| Forms | aube n. Also haube, owbe, ab(b)e, albe, (error) owche. |
| Etymology | OE albe (from L) & OF aube, albe & ML alba. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An ecclesiastical vestment (usually of white linen) reaching to the ankles, an alb; also, the Greek poderis, the Hebrew ephod; (b) ~ girdel, girdle used to gather the alb at the waist.
Associated quotations
a
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)163 : Te albe sol, and hire smoc hwit.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7119 : Þere hii were..grimliche vnderuonge, & inome to abbe of hore [vr. albe of here] & ibroȝt in bendes stronge.
- a1350 Dream Bk.(1) (Hrl 2253)43 : Mon in albe oþer cloþ whit, of ioie þat is gret delit.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)236 : Þis ilke selue [chastity] is ous betokned ine þe aube and ine þe gerdle aboue, þet þe ministres of holy cherche doþ an huanne hi ssolle serui at godes wyeuede.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.27.9 : Thou shalt clothen it as an aube of wrshipe [L poderem honoris; WB(2): a long cloth of onour].
- (1394) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2315 : Item in lineo panno ad manicas abbe.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.319 : Of preste þou has no merke, albe ne non amite.
- (1413) Will in Bdf.HRS 218 : Tunycles, aubes, amyces.
- (1423-4) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7815 : For the mendyng of an awbe i d.; item for waschyng of ii awbes.
- (1429) Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5302 : Also a vestiment of blak bawdekyn..and ye Aube longyng therto.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)17 : Awbe: Alba, poderis.
- (1443) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 829 : For makyng of a nawbe new and me[n]dy[n]g of a holde hawbe.
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30110 : Item, I ordeyne a cope of blew velvet with chisiple and ij toniclis and the aubis therto.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)125/30-1 : I suppose veryly it was his awbe, for my auctor her setteth a word 'subucula' whech is both an awbe and a schert.
- (1454-56) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31243 : Item, paied for wasshing of auterclothes, towails, aubes, amytes, and surplices.
- (1458) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7850 : For a nabe mendyng.
- (1458) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7851 : For mendyng of i naube.
- (1466) LRed Bk.Bristol2.235 : An hoole Awbe and a hoole Cheeszyple.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.IVMass (Trin-C R.3.21)148 : The large Awbe, by record of scripture, Ys ryghtwysnesse, perpetually to indure.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)2a : An Albe: Alba, aphot, linea stricta, poderis.
- (1480-82) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32145 : Paide for setting on of the owche [?read: owbe] upon the best cope by John clerkes wife, ij d.
b
- (1428) *Mun.B.Bridgewater14 : For iiij owbe gerdelys, iij d.
- (1448) *Mun.B.Bridgewater17 : For vij awbe gyrdeles vj d.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Dc.45 Artist.Recipes (Dc 45) 149/15 : Þe vtter dele of cloþ in garmentis ys ycallyd a 'champe', and þe lynyng ys ycallyd 'albers', and þe hem a 'lysere'.
Note: Glossary: "albers n. 'alb (garment)'."
Note: ?This word. ?New spelling.