Middle English Dictionary Entry
sarǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sarǧe n. Also serge. |
| Etymology | OF sarge, serge & ML sargium, sarg(e)a. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Woolen cloth, serge; also, a piece of serge; ~ cloth, a piece of serge; (b) a covering for the portable Jewish tabernacle.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2568 : To the lystes rit the compaignye..thurgh out the citee large, Hanged with clooth of gold and noght with sarge.
- (1390) in Rec.B.Nottingham 1246 : Unum riddel, unum sarge, et unum peyntidkloth veteres ad vj d.
- c1460 My fayr lady (Hrl 2255)p.201 : Lych a seergecloth hire nekke is clene.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.26.7-8 : Þou schalt make elleuen herene sargys [alt. from: saye couertours of heere; WB(2): saies; L saga] to couer þe rofe of þe tabernacle; þe leynþ of þe to sarge [alt. from: say; WB(2): o say; L sagi unius] schal haue þritty cobitis & þe brede foure.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.36.14 : He made enleuen sarges of the heeris of goote, to couere the roofe of the tabernacle.