Middle English Dictionary Entry
pautener(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | pautener(e n.(2) Also pautnere & (errors) pantener, pauntener, pawltner, paukener. |
| Etymology | OF pautonniere |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A purse; bag, pouch; ~ ringes, ?circular pieces of metal used to attach or fasten a purse.
Associated quotations
- c1330 Why werre (Auch)86 : He put in his pautener an honne and a komb.
- (1379) Will York in Sur.Soc.4103 : Uno pawtener de serico.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)12b/a : Cassidulus: facilis pera, or a pautener.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)40a/a : Marcipium: a pautenere or a pouche.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)48b/b : Pera: a scripe or a pautener.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)15/151 : He wyl noȝt spare his purse to spend his selare; Alas, he ner a parson or a vecory..Apon his perte pautener vche mon ys apayd.
- (?1438) Will York in Sur.Soc.4594 : De j pautener de prewce, iij d.
- (?1439) Will York in Sur.Soc.4597 : De j pari pawtyner rynges, ij d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)387 : Pawtenere: Cassidile.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)148 : Trewaundrie..can no thing doo but make cloutes and panteneers [read: pauteneers; F pautonnieres] and bagges.
- (1459) Will York in Sur.Soc.30236 : j broche de auro cum uno pawtener de auro.
- (1463-4) RParl.5.505b : This Ordenaunce of Aray in noo wise prejudice nor hurt eny persone..for weryng eny Purces, Pawteners, or Crounes of Cappes for Children.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)23679 : Thei Robbe pantener [read: pautener] and purs, and gete hem ofte Cristes cours.
- (?1475) Stonor1.156 : More over suster, remembre my pauntener and my pursse, and þat I have the teune of them sende me shortely, apon pene þet woll fall there on.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)93a : A Pawtener: crimena [read: crumena]..vbi purse.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)735/12 : Mercipium: a pawtnere.
- a1500 Octav.(1) (Cmb Ff.2.38)104/711 : Aftur alle thys tyme befelle, Clement xl pownde can telle Into a pawtenere.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)53b : When the sariantes done them Arest, Their pawltners [vr. paukeners] be puffid with paris balles.