Middle English Dictionary Entry
nọ̄n-shench n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nọ̄n-shench n. Also -shenche, -cense, -chinche, -chins, -ciens, -sench(e, -shinge, -shins, -shonch, -siens, -sinch & noenshinch, nounshench, nunseinch, -sens. |
| Etymology | From nọ̄n n. & shench. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A refreshment of food and/or liquor taken at midday or during the afternoon.
Associated quotations
- (1342) in Salzman Building in Engl.79 : [Bread and ale for the] nonsenchis [of the sawyers].
- (1352-3) Let.Bk.Lond.G (Gldh LetBk G)6 : [Payments are made..for] Nonschenche.
- (1366-7) *Mun.B.Bridgewater23 : Pro diuersis Nonschenches et beueragiis.
- (1372) in Salzman Building in Engl.79 : Pro nonshyns ad eosdem stonemasons, 3 d.
- (1375-6) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5128 : Vnde liberantur Conuentui pro eorum nonschonch' quolibet feriali die j panis et j lagena ceruisie.
- (1377) *Chamberl.R.Winch. : Item in nounschenches, xii d.
- (1390) in Salzman Building in Engl.79 : [At Wallingford..ale to the value of 10 d. was provided for the masons and labourers for] noensshynches.
- (1397) *Chamberl.R.Winch. : Pro eorum Nonshynges.
- (1422-3) in Salzman Building in Engl.80 : For her noonchyns every day to eche of hem.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.153/385 : Item, for hijs noonnchyns to þe same dawber, iiij d. ob.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.156/491 : Item, to ij Carpenters be j day, to ech of hem with her Nonsenches, viij d. ob., for to make þe forseid goter, xvij d.
- (1426-7) Rec.St.Mary at Hill65 : Also the same day ij masouns to pynne þe same hous takyng with her nonsiens & a laborere, xxij d. ob.
- (1429-30) Rec.St.Mary at Hill73 : Also for noncyens of þe same laborer, ij d. ob.
- (1430) *Chamberl.R.Winch. : De uno denario pro nooncense.
- (1431-4) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7830 : In diuersis potacionibus datis diuersis operariis & nonsynches circa eorum opera.
- (1434-5) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7833 : For ys man ys nonchynche..for nonsenche, iii d.
- (1436-7) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7841 : For nunseynches to karpenters, viii d.
- (1462-3) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7859 : Item, pro le nunsens operariorum, vii d.
- (1473-4) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum15 : Item, in nonesenches to diverse labourers at diverse times, vj d.