Middle English Dictionary Entry
pā̆rtī̆(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | pā̆rtī̆(e adj. Also (errors) part, patie. |
| Etymology | From OF parti, ppl. of partir. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of flowers, cloth, garments, shields or coats of arms, etc.: of different colors, variegated, parti-colored; of colors: mixed; as noun: variegated cloth; (b) different; changeable; rebellious; (c) chartre ~, indented document.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1053 : She gadreth floures party [vrr. a party, patie, part], white and rede.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.983 : Juno let bende hire parti bowe.
- a1425 Direct.Laces in Studies Robbins (Hrl 2320)100 : To make a lace round party: Set 7 bowes departed on þyne hond..so þat þe o colour be aboue and þe oþer beneþe.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)29b/a : Fuluus: red wt blac, party, or dorray or ȝelewe.
- (1429) Will York in Sur.Soc.4417 : A party goune of green and better grene.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)385 : Party Clothe, or clothe made of dyuers colowrys: Pannucia.
- (1448-50) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)303 : Resseyued..for the lyuerye vyolet In grayn for gownes and þe hodis partie with cremesyn.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)1033 : Hast þou ben prowde of any gyse..Of party hosen, of pykede schone?
- c1450(?c1425) St.Christina Mirab.(Dc 114)126/8 : She shamed not þogh þe sleues in o coot were party and of dyuerse colours.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.3 (Hrl 2169)202 : Gold and wert party, [a lion gules].
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.7212 : [Azure three lions] party, half sylvyr and gowlys.
- (c1465) Invent.Cirencester in BGAS 18 (Bod 6530)327 : v olde chesiplis..and olde veyle of party.
- (c1465) Invent.Cirencester in BGAS 18 (Bod 6530)328 : A gyrdyl y harnyst with selver, party corse with xi barris.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)92b : Party: bipartatus.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton:EETS)35/322 (f.47ra) : Whan he said the beestis of party colour shold be myn, thenne alle the ewes brought forth lambes of variable colours.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)her.leaf f ii/a : He berith party after the longe way of ij colouris, golde and goules.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)608 : Merlin..was clothed in a short garnement, party read and white.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)11/4 : A knygh with Party armys shall formyst breke the clos of Irland.
b
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.260 : The peeple was parti, & roos ageyn the kyng.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)668 : Þi fourme Is lickenand on na lym ne like to my selfe..Þi personale proporcion sa party is to myne.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)316 : Fortune, the goddesse, with her party face Was vnto Pluto next in ordre set; Varyaunt she was.
c
- (1443) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2238 : He was asked..what merchaunts had lade the ship, and therto he shewed his chartre party.