Middle English Dictionary Entry
plais(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | plais(e n. Also plaisse, plaice, pleise, place, plaes; pl. plais(es, plaices, places & plaisse, pleise, plaisce, pleieis. |
| Etymology | OF pläis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A plaice Pleuronectes platessa, or a similar European flatfish; (b) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1350 Ipswich Domesday(1) (Add 25012)102 : Item, ordene est..qe nul regrater en le dyt marche ne preygne hors de paners playz, sooles, floundres..countre le volunte de ceux qe le peysoun deyvent. ]
- (1267) Acc.Leyburn in EHR 54211 : In ii summis plays.
- (1280) LRed Bk.Bristol1.90 : Debent..dari ffratribus..de quolibet batello portante plais, octo plais.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)896 : He bar up wel a carte lode Of segges, laxes, of playces brode.
- (1307) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.993 : In i summa de plaises emp. in villa, 5 s. 2 d..In albo pisce, plaices et sperlinges de villa, 3 s. 4 d.
- (1366) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9945 : In plais et sperlinges emptis, 6 s. 3 1/2 d.
- (1391) *Acc.Bridgwater (PRO) : In ij plaisse.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52181/1 : Clerico coquine..pro..playces et aliis piscibus..x scot. xv d.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)54 : Plays in Cynce. Take Plays and smyt hem to pecys and fry hem in oyle.
- (1403) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9951 : In una summa playsce de Tes sumpt., 4 s.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)641/21 : Nomina piscium..fundulus: playsse; pecten: idem.
- (1425) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.186/1441 : Item, for plaices, iij s. iiij d.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)437 : Gele of Flesshe. Take vell or pyggus or capons or hennus..and if hit be on fyssh day, make hit on the same manere of playsse or of codlynge.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)103 : That non regratour in the forseid market take out of paner plays..ne non other maner of fyssh that cometh in panyerys.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)402 : Playce [Win: Place], fysche: Pecten.
- (1449) Shillingford153 : iij pleyeis emptis de Thoma Kyng, ffyssher.
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)604 : A playse y sauset.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)103 : Plaise boiled. Take a playse..And make sauce..and caste hit there-to and lete seth..or elles take a plays..And fry him in hote oile.
- (1464) Let.Bk.Lond.L (Gldh LetBk L)45 : Elys, Whityng, Places, Coddes..Pigell, Heryng, or any other vitaill.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57436 : Wednysday, the xix day of Jenever: in saltfyshe..whygthe herynge..plays..freshe codde..hey..summa, ij s. v d.
- (1469) Stonor1.102 : A playys, iij d., saltefyhs and saltesamon, vij d.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)570 : Off playce, looke ye put a-way þe watur clene, afftur þat þe fynnes also, þat þey be not sene.
- ?a1475 Gloss RSS in Sln.1986 (Sln 1986)56 : Plays [glossing:] plagma.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)141 : Braune with mustarde, elys in burneus..pouderyde trought, codde-lyng, plays with merlyng fryde.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)96b : A place: quidam pisces, pecten, bronoscopus.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)153 : He ordeined a lawe that no man shulde at his borde Ete the blake syde of the playse [vr. plaes].
- a1500 Herkyn to my tale (Adv 19.3.1)p.81 : Tho pyke and tho perche, tho symen and tho roche, Tho pleyse and tho macrell, yit were there moo.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)704/30 : Polanus, pecten: a place.
b
- (1297) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 16145 : Beatr. Playce..Thom. Playce.
- (1301) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 2163 : Roberto Playce.
- (1326) Close R.Edw.II588 : John Plaicefot.
- (1350) in Madox Form.Angl.(1702)267 : Willelmo Plaice.