Middle English Dictionary Entry
plunket adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | plunket adj. Also plonket, ploncket. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF plonquié ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of a blue color; esp. light or grayish blue; also, made of light blue or blue-gray wool; ~ medle, cloth made of varying shades of blue-gray or light blue threads.
Associated quotations
- [ (1351) Pat.R.Edw.III129 : Une espeie ove lescauberk covert de velvet plunket, ove seynture de soy plunket. ]
- [ (1400) Will York in Sur.Soc.4511 : Pro j coverlet cum griffyns plunkettz. ]
- (1385) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 81366 : Unum mantellum Johannis Holand de velvetto, duplicatum cum tartarinplunket.
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.200 : [One dozen of] plunket [cloth, 20 s.; one dozen and 2 yds. of red cloth].
- (1414) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.3 : [5 cloths of] ray, [the field being] piersblewe..[2 of] ray [with the field black and 3 1/2 of] ray [with the field] plonket..[13 of red] medle [and 10 of] plonket medle.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)46 : iij cortyns..ij playn and þe þridde striped with plonket riban.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)47 : ij corteyns of tartaryn, reed and plonket paled.
- (1434) Doc.Merchant York in Sur.Soc.12943 : Item, allowed to the forsaide master and constables for plonket clothe gefen to master Thomas Cleveland and to Thomas Warde to thaire hodes.
- a1450 Dc.291 Lapid.(Dc 291)p.27 : The best onycle is blak & ploncket.
- (1471) Paston (EETS)1.566 : A jaket of plonket chamlett.
- (1471) Paston (EETS)1.633 : I pray ȝow to bye me iij ȝerddys of porpyl schamlet..a gyrdyl of plunkket ryban.
- c1475 Sln.4 Recipes in NQ ser.3.6 (Sln 4)4 : For to dye whyte horse here for anglyng..woode youre here in a wooden fatte a lyght plunket coloure.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1415) Will in Bdf.HRS 228 : Y will..þt Edward my sone haue a grene bed of borde alisaundre wt þe hole sile wt ye holme and ye armes of John Cheyne, Squier stondyng in a ȝok wt iij corteyns reed and plonket tartarein paled.
Note: Additional quot.
- a1500 Rwl.C.506 Artist.Recipes (Rwl C.506)167/20 : Take clene wel water..and put florey þerto..and take white cloþe not alymid, and put þeryn, and wryng it wel togedir with þy handes..and it wyll be a blanket [read: planket] colour, and if þu wylt have it more depper, put yn more florey and plonge þy cloþe agayne and þu shalt have a good blewe.
Note: New forms: Also planket & (error) blanket.--all notes per MLL