Middle English Dictionary Entry

sop(pe n.(1)
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Note: Cp. soupe n.(1).
1.
(a) A piece of bread dipped or soaked in wine, water, milk, or some other liquid; pl. sops; also, cook. a dish containing pieces of toasted bread on which a broth or syrup is poured; soppes dorre(s), [see dorre adj. and n., sense 1.(b)]; ~ in win; ale (milk, water, win) ~; oile soppes; (b) taken (eten) a ~, to have a light meal; (c) from (for) ~ to ~, in bits and pieces, piecemeal; (d) fig. someone or something of little value; milk ~; (e) in phrase: ~ in win, cloth of red color; a piece of such cloth; campus ~ in win, a red background.