Middle English Dictionary Entry
bankēr n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bankēr n. Also banc(o)ur, bankquer, banqwer, bankert. |
| Etymology | OF banquier |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A covering, of tapestry or other fabric, for a bench, couch, or chair; also, an ornamental hanging for a room, altar, or bed; ~ cloth.
Associated quotations
- (1278) R.Tournament in Archaeol.17308 : iiij banqers radiati pro Camera Regis..ij magni banqers pro armis emptis Parisiis cooperiendis.
- (1312) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.v : In garderoba..quatuor baunkeres.
- ?c1350 Ballad Sc.Wars (Jul A.5)69 : Þe bankers on þe binkes lay, And fair lordes sette ii fonde.
- (1384-5) in Rec.B.Nottingham 1230 : De sex peciis de banquers et quyschinskloth.
- (1395) EEWills5/1 : I bequethe to..my sone, an Halle, with docere, costers and bankers, of sute of that forseyde bed.
- (1404) MSS Middleton in HMC102 : Lectum meum..cum quysshons et bankers.
- (1419) *Will Bury1.f.155 : A banker of blew and red.
- (c1422) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12202 : j banker de Worstede blodii et blueti coloris.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)98 : Oure lord Jesu sitteth downe..on the bare grounde, for there had he neither banker ne kuschyne.
- (1442) Invent.Gild in PSAL ser.2.5121 : ij bankers lyned with Canvas of Cowchid Werke.
- (1448) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 93164 : ii bankertys of grene.
- (1451-2) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)315/7 : For duble hangyng of the parloure with lenyn clothe, Rede Worstede, iij pagentes with our Armes iiij bankers lyned and xij koschanes of Rede Worstede with our Armes.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : A banker of grene and red lying in hire chambyr with the longe chayer.
- (1467) Death Hen.V in Archaeol.65179 : For þe aucter of Kyng Harry þe vth..iiij auterclothys..ij bankers wrought with antyloppys and Swannys and þe armys of þe Kyng in þe myddys.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.129 : Themperoure..ordeynede benches and bankers in his place afterwarde.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)434 : Curiouste stondiþ in hallis, boþe in making of þe housis, in doseris, bancurs and cuȝshens.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)313 : His howse wyth ynne Wyth bankers brodyrd all abowte.