Middle English Dictionary Entry
osei(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | osei(e n. Also ossei(e, ozei, osai, ausoi, asai, asoie, (error) oseþe. |
| Etymology | AF oseye & CF ausay, osoye. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A sweet wine, prob. from Alsace but associated with Spain and Portugal; ~ of spaine; (b) ?the region from which the wine comes; whit) win of ~.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1387) Let.Bk.Lond.H (Gldh LetBk H)214 : Osoye ne nul autre vyn despaigne. ]
- (1383) Let.Bk.Lond.H (Gldh LetBk H)214 : [That no one sell wine of Gascony,] Oseye of Spain, [or any sweet wine at more than 6 pence a gallon].
- (1396-9) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.168 : Osey [worth 8 1.].
- (1405) Doc.in Rogers Hist.Agric.3545 : 22 do. oseye.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)202 : Osay a[n]d algarde and oþer ynewe, Rynisch wyne and Rochell, richere was neuer.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)132 : The marchaundy also of Portyngale To dyverse londes torneth into sale..Here londe hathe oyle, wyne, osey, wex, and greyne.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)158/481 : To clence the eyen that haue nat clere syght take..calamyn stoone powdrede, lx fyne clowes..and all thies powdred put in a quart of fyne oseþe or malnesyne and set on the fyre.
- (1466-7) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.611 : Pro iii pipis vini vocati ossey.
- (1469) Ordin.Househ.Clarence in PSAL (1790)101 : Romenay, osey..and other sweete wynes.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)12831 : In wast, in reuel..And dyuers drynkes ffor solas, Romney, clarre, ypocras, In malvesyn and in Osey, The longe nyht I daunce and pley.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)120 : The namys of swete wynes y wold þat ye them knewe: Vernage, vernagelle..Ozey.
- a1500(a1451) Commodities Eng.(LdMisc 593)554 : Owte of the kynges londe of Portyngale and Algarbe cummythe grete merchandyse as, 1 Mete oyle, 2 Woll oyle, 3 Salte, 4 Osseye.
- a1525(?1421) Cov.Leet Bk.24 : That thei sell noo Osey ne algarbe ne no bastard till..his peres haue seen hit & set price theron.
b
- [ (1381) Statutes Realm2.18 : Vins de Gascoign, de la Rochele, Oseye of Despaign & vins rynoises. ]
- (1382-3) Let.Bk.Lond.H (Gldh LetBk H)210 : [Writ..reciting provisions..for the sale of wine of Gascony,] Oseye, [and Spain].
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5242/31 : Pro j dolio vini de Osey..x li. st.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)prol.107 : Wiþ wyn of osay [vrr. asay, asoye; B: White wyn of Oseye] & wyn of gascoyne, Of þe ryn & of þe rochel, þe rost to defie.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)1700 : The king of Ausoy [F le Roy dausay] it besegied had.