Middle English Dictionary Entry
rai(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | rai(e adj. |
| Etymology | From rai(e n.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Made with colored stripes, striped; (b) of garments: made of the striped cloth called raie; (c) ~ cloth, cloth ~, ?striped cloth; ?= rai(e n.(2) 2.(a).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.265 : Honorius..chaungede þe coopes of frere Carmes into clene white, þat were toforehonde ray, barred, and beemed [L stragulatæ, radiatæ et birratæ].
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.206 : [One long (gown) of] ray plonket.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)422 : Ray, yn a clothe [vr. rayyd with ray]: Stragulatus, radiatus.
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 11116 : Item, a frontell of grene Ray Sylk.
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 11117 : Item, ij frontell, oon of blew Sylk..And a noyr of Ray welwet chekeryd.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)603/46 : Polimitus: Ray or motle or medlee.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)101b : Ray..stragulatus.
b
- (1374) Will York in Sur.Soc.492 : Item, lego Johanni Lowell..j ray goun.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)3.271 : Shal no seriaunt for þat seruyse were a silk houue, Ne no ray robe [wiþ] riche pelure.
- (1419-20) Will in Bk.Lond.E.219/7 : To Thomas Pykot my whit Ray gowne.
- (1439) *Will Bury241 : I will that Jon' Kebyll haue a ray gowne.
- c1450 Lond.Chron.Cleo.(Cleo C.4)146 : All the strumpetys that myght be take in london were made to were ray hoodes.
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57411 : Item, for makenge of a ray gowne for my mastyr, xx d.
- (1470) Paston (EETS)1.553 : I haue..delyueryd..your raye gowne.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)62 : All the comyn strompetes sholde were raye hodis.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Prov.31.22 : A ray cloþ she made to hir.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ezek.16.13 : Thou were clothid with biys and ray cloth [L polymito] with rounde ymagis.
- (1442) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1382 : Thomas Scotte for vij yerdes of Ray cloth..xj s. viij d..to euery of theym iij yerd of cloth Ray.
- a1486(a1460) Coron.Kings Eng.in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)48 : He shall goo upon newe raye clothe leyde undir his feet.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)34 : Sometymes knyghtes take a fee here yerely of x marcs, and cloathing, but because ray clothinge is not according for the Kings knightes, therefore it was left.
Note: Needed for date in sense (b).--per MLL