Middle English Dictionary Entry
tailarde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tailarde n. Also tailerde & (in surnames) tail(l)ard, tailart, teil(l)ard; pl. tailardes, tailairdis, teilardes. |
| Etymology | From tail n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Someone who has a tail;—used as a term of abuse [cp. tail n. 1a.(e)]; english ~; (b) ?as surname [some quots. may be from OF taillarde sword for cutting].
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Rich.(Auch)115/24 : King richard herd of þis destaunce & pleyned him to þe king of fraunce, & he seyd he held no wardes Of þe Inglysche teylardes [vr. taylayrdis].
- c1330(?a1300) Rich.(Auch)117/134 : His ost he dede at ones crie..& ȝif bateyl to þe teylardes [vrr. taylardes, Ynglys tailerde].
- 1448-a1500 Rich.(b-version:Brunner)117/70 : The kyng named hym kyng by name And cleped him taylarde and seid hym shame.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)2006 : Swythe sore they hym trayde, Cleped hym taylarde, and hym myssayde.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)2124 : The emperoure began to rage..And syth he cryed..'Out, taylardes, of my paleys! Now go, and saye your tayled kynge That j owe hym no thynge!'
b
- (1159) in Pipe R.Soc.149 : Andreas Taillard.
- (1166) in Pipe R.Soc.9105 : In terris datis Andree Teillard.
- (c1200) Cart.Oseney in OHS 97211 : Gileberto Tailart..Nicholao Tailart.
- (1207) Feet Fines Oxf.in ORS 1236 : Nicholaus Taillard.
- (1243) Close R.Hen.III115 : Ricardus le Tailard.
- (1255) Hundred R.Tower 123 : Ancessores Thome Taylard solebant facere omnia forinceca servic. domino Regi usque post guerram Ang.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1099 : Johanne Tayllard, 2 s. 7 3/4 d.
- (1327) Nickname in SAU 63191 : Joh. Tailard; Rob. Teilard.