Middle English Dictionary Entry
scroule n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scroule n. Also scrowel, scraule, scrol(le; pl. scorelles, skirelles. |
| Etymology | ?Blend of scrou(e n. & rolle n.(1); also cp. OF escröele, escrouelle piece or strip of cloth. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A scroll; a written document, bill, etc.; (b) a decorative device resembling a partly opened scroll.
Associated quotations
a
- (1405) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.274 : [Seven rolls and one] scrowell [of memoranda and pleas].
- a1475(1438) St.Alex.(4) (Hrl 4775)116 : The Pope..toke the scrolle of his honde and lest hit anone, and then he made hit be red byfore alle the peple.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)109a : A Scroll: Rotula, breue, scedula, &c..A Scrawle: Scedula.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)682/26 : Hec sidula: a scrowle.
b
- (1435-6) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7837 : Item, resiue of Mychell Salleysbery..i peyre of vestements, grene wyt scorelles of golde, & i chalyse wyt a casse.
- (1466) Rec.St.Stephen in Archaeol.5041 : Item, j powche of clothe of golde departyd in tweyne, enbraudyd with skirelles of perle, with iij ymachis and iij angelles in them tweyne.