Middle English Dictionary Entry
talbot n.
Entry Info
| Forms | talbot n. Also talbut & (in surnames) talebot, taleboth, talebod, thalebot, taillebot; pl. talbotes, talbotais, talbottis, talbatis. |
| Etymology | Prob. from LOE (name) talebot, from OF: cp. Ftalbot piece of wood serving as a shackle (16th cent.) & piece of wood hung around the neck of a dog (18th cent.). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) As a name for a dog;—also used in political allegories [2nd & 3rd quots.]; (b) ?a representation of a dog on fabric; (c) cook. a sauce made from the blood of a hare;—usu. pl.; also, pl. a dish of hare's meat served in such a sauce [quot. a1450]; hare in ~, hares in talbotes; (d) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4573 : After hym [fox]..Ran Colle oure dogge, and Talbot and Gerland And Malkyn with a distaf in hire hand.
- (c1450) The Rote is ded (CotR 2.23)12 : Þe White lioun is leyde to slepe, Þorowȝ the Envy of the Ape clogge; And he is bownden that oure dore shuld kepe—That is Talbott oure good dogge.
- c1460 Of alle mennys (Dub 432)33 : Talbot ontrewe was þe oon dogges name, Bauling bewmond anodre..þe thrid..was called bolde egremonde.
b
- (1461-2) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 9485 : Duo scannaria vulgariter nuncupata bankerys, of redde & grene, precii xx d..quatuor scannaria with Talbatis, precii xx d.
c
- 1381 Dc.257 Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)63.9/1 : Haris in talbotays schul be hewe in gobettys al raw and sodyn with al þe blod; Nym bred, piper, & ale..temper it wyþ þe selue broth & boyle it & salt it & serue it forþe.
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)103.25/1 : Hares in talbotes: Take hares and hewe hem to gobettes and seeþ hem with þe blode vnwaisshed in broth.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)19 : Talbottys: Take an Hare an fle hem clene; þen take þe blode & Brede an Spycery an grynde y-fere & draw it vppe with þe brothe; þan take Wyne or Ale an cast þer-to & make gobettys & þanne serue it forth.
- c1450 Yale 163 Cook.Recipes (Yale 163)p.46 : Hare yn talbut.
d
- [ (1086) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Talebot. ]
- (1146-8) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Talebod.
- (1185) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Talebot.
- (1202) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Taillebot.
- (1225) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Thalebot.
- (1229) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Taleboth.
- (1247) Close R.Hen.III43 : Adam Talbot.
- (1255) Pipe R.Chs.in LCRS 92106 : Gilbert Talbot.
- (1332) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames342 : Talbut.
- (1458-9) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 9412 : Matildis Smyth alias Talbot.