Middle English Dictionary Entry
ostriche-fether n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ostriche-fether n. |
| Etymology | From ostriche n.(1) & fether. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An ostrich feather; (b) a representation of an ostrich feather in embroidery or engraving; (c) her. a representation of an ostrich feather on a seal or a crest.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 MS Sln.56 in EETS 139 (Sln 56)p.xxvii : Et sic assumpsit sibi [Edward, Prince of Wales, son of Ed.III] illam pennam quae dicitur Ostrich fether.
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57403 : My mastyr paid for an estryche federe and for the garneshynge of the same.
- (1468) Acc.Howard in RC 57567 : Master Nicholace Howard..paid fore a harnes complet fore hym, and an estriche fether.
b
- (1422-3) Death Hen.V in Archaeol.65140 : j Trapper de nigro velewet cum pennis albis vocatis Ostrych feders.
- (1423) Will York in Sur.Soc.4570 : Sex costours..de opere tapestrie..cum j ostryge fethir in suo.
- (1435) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)531 : Unum vestimentum sacerdotale..cum casula de ostrichfedrez.
- (1447) Indent.Oxf.in RS 50.2565 : 1 coverlyt of reed and blew with estryche fetherys.
- (1460) *Will Tame (Somerset Ho.) [OD col.] : Ciphum cum esterige-feders.
- (?1474) Stonor1.147 : A grene coverlett wyth pottes and Estrych ffeþurs.
c
- c1460 I warne you (Dub 432)p.294 : The Estrich Feder was in the felde, that many men myght sene.
- 1466 Challenge Warw.in PMLA 22 (Lnsd 285)602 : My lorde..Armyd in the godelyest wise..with a frenshe Creste of Ostrigge ffethers of golde coompacid with a white Chaplet aboue his basynet.