Middle English Dictionary Entry
banke n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | banke n.(3) |
| Etymology | It. banca, either directly or by way of F. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A financial organization, a bank.
Associated quotations
- (a1460) BokenhamSts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)32.121 (v.1:p.239) : An officer .. wolde han putte the money of the chirche into the banke, but the patriarc wolde nat assentyn therto.
- (1475-82) Treaty Edw.IV in Archaeol.32328 : We shalle..make the felisship and felowes of the banke de Medicys..laufully to be bounden for the sayd fyfty thousand scutes.
- a1500 Play Sacr.(Dub 652)180 : I prey þe rychely araye myn hall As owyth for a marchant of the banke.