Middle English Dictionary Entry
Nor-folk n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Nor-folk n. Also -folch & northfolk, -folck, -folc, -folch. |
| Etymology | OE Norþ-folc |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The county Norfolk; (b) manufactured in or characteristic of Norfolk; of ~; ~ thred, tightly spun thread produced in Norfolk, worsted.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Hundreds Engl.(Jes-O 29)47 : To Dene lawe bilympeþ..Norþfolc.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.619 : Of Northfolk was this reue of which I telle Biside a toun men clepen Baldeswelle.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.239 : I can no frenche in feith but of þe ferthest ende of norfolke [vr. Northfolk].
- (1459) Will Fastolf in Nrf.Archaeol.2228 : Johannes Fastolff, Miles, de Com. Northfolck.
b
- (1379) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.207 : [A bed of] Norfolk.
- (1382) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)4.146 : Unum indumentum de panno Northfolch, foderatum de panno nigro.
- (1391) Will York in Sur.Soc.4149 : Lectum de opere Northfolch.
- (1398) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.173 : [2] coverledes [with a] tapet [of] Norfolch.
- (1407-8) in Rec.B.Nottingham 252 : Pro ij volets de Northfolk-thred.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400 PPl.Z (Bod 851)5.98 : Thenne com Couetyse, knoked ys brest; A hued a Northfolk nose, Y noem ful god hede.
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