Middle English Dictionary Entry
parclōse n.
Entry Info
| Forms | parclōse n. Also -cloce, -klos, -clus & perclos(e. |
| Etymology | OF parclos, -close, perclose. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A screen or railing used to form a partition or enclosure; also, a wall; (b) a chapel or cloister formed by a screen or railing; (c) an enclosed field, a park.
Associated quotations
a
- (1336-7) Sacrist R.Ely 280 : Pro parclus faciend iuxta chorum die sepulture.
- (1349) *Acc.Exch.K.R.471/3.m.5 [OD col.] : Pro quodam parclos faciendo in eadem domo janitoris, xviii d.
- (1387) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.129 : [Robert Draycote..brought a bill of complaint that..they had cut down and carried away..a] parclos [of] Estrichbord [13 feet long].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.5718 : Whan þis werke was complete euerydel, Rounde enviroun..Þei made a parclos al of Eban tre.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)11285 : Thei made..a parclos That al a-boute that fair werk gos.
- (1427-8) Rec.St.Mary at Hill69 : For a pyn of iron for stayenge of þe parclos in þe quere: ij d.
- (1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8516 : Thay awarde and deme that the perclose that standys betwix the entre and the shop, and all other percloses..abyde still wyth the place.
- (1431) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.255 : Þe cost of þe pilers and arches fro þe parclos of the Chauncell..shall egally be born be twene þe parson and þe parisshens.
- (1440) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.4 : For tymbyr borde and quaters for ye steyre and ye parclosse walle in ye kychyn.
- (1441) Visit.Alnwick9b : We charge yow, prioresse..that ye do take downe that perclose that ye dyde make in the dormytorye, and that ye ouersee that euery nunnes celle be open in toward the dormytory, as your rewle demaundes.
- (1445) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.80 : [2] fourmys with parcloce [7 s.].
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)4231 : The fadir loged hem..In a chambre next to his ionyng, ffor by-twix hem nas þer but a parclose Of borde..Þurgh out þe which, at many a chynnyng, In eche chambre þei myght beholde.
- (1450) in Parker Gloss.Archit.1341 : [The carpenters do covenant to make and set up finely and workmanly a] parclose [of timber about an organ-loft].
- (1451) Paston (EETS)1.36 : Angnes Ball com to me to my closett and bad me good euyn..And all that tyme Waryn Herman lenyd ouyr þe parklos and lystynd whatt we seyd.
- (1452-4) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)340 : Item, paye for iiij grete broddes for the long perclos, Summa ij d.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4915 : My body to be beryed by the awter of Seynt Martyn..vnder the parcloos of the retourne of the candilbeem.
- (1468) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31403 : To a carpenter for j C. & di. and x. fete elmen boord for the parclose of the schoppe.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)327 : Parclos: pergulum..uel locutorium.
b
- (1414) in Rec.B.Nottingham 296 : De praedictis tenementis et aedificiis; prout locus, ubi dictae viduae manent et manebunt, extendit a via regia versus occidentem usque ad ingressum Capellae Beatae Virginis Mariae praedictae quae dicitur Parcloos.
- (1445-6) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1394 : Pro..ij fenestris de lez parcloses Regis et Regine.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)907/34 : Whan hit cam unto the sakarynge, he that lay within the perclose dressyd hym up and uncoverde hys hede.
c
- 1466 Challenge Warw.in PMLA 22 (Lnsd 285)601 : My lorde lete set vp a pavilon, within the parclos of Guynesse.
2.
The end of a narrative; the conclusion of a letter.
Associated quotations
- c1390(?a1300) Stations Rome(1) Prol.(Vrn)75 : Now þis schal beo þe parclose, No more to speken of þis prose.
- (1424) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)87/20 : Your Lordly clemence so benigly voucheþ sauf, as is purported in þe parclose of your seid lettres, to haue assercion be comers betwene of your gode desires.