Middle English Dictionary Entry
plumāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | plumāǧe n. Also plummage. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Plumage, feathers; hawk. feathers given to a hawk as an emetic.
Associated quotations
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.426 : Ther nas neuere man yet on lyue, If that I koude a faukon wel discryue, That herde of swich another of fairnesse, As wel of plumage [vr. plummage] as of gentillesse.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)6 : If it be a sperhauke, euer fede here with on-wasche mete; And loke þat here castynge be plumage.