Middle English Dictionary Entry
tressǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tressǒur n. Also tressoure, tressore, tressure, tresour, trechour, trissoure, (error) tredoure. |
| Etymology | OF treccoir, trecheor, tresseor, AF tressour & OF treceure, treseure, trechure, AF tressure, tressore. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A net, an arrangement of ties, a binding, etc. for the hair, a headdress; also, an ornamented arrangement of the hair into plaits, coils, etc.; also, = tres(se n. 1.(a) [quots. ?c1475 & a1500]; (b) ?netting or decorative cord, prob. of gold, used to adorn a woman's attire [quot. may belong to (a) or (c)]; (c) her. a narrow band running parallel to the edges of a shield; ?also, a decorative motif similar to the heraldic device.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1300 Sayings St.Bern.(Dgb 86)761/5 : Þe riche leuedies..wereden gold in hoere tressour.
- a1350(a1325) SLeg.Cec.(Ashm 43)8 : Þis maide werede..Gerlans & tresours al of golde.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1739 : Þe lady..rayked hir þeder In a mery mantyle..No hweȝ goud on hir hede, bot þe haȝer stones Trased aboute hir tressour be twenty in clusteres.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)568 : With a riche gold tresour Hir heed was tressed queyntely.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)656/17 : Tricatorium: tressure.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)130b : A Trissoure of A woman hedde: Cincinnus..trica.
- a1500 St.Kath.(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)240 : Do hange hur be hur tresourys, And hur brestys drawe away!
b
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)651 : Hir botouns..were anamelde with asure, With terepys [vr. topyes], and with tredoure [vr. trechour Ouertrasyd].
c
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1047 : He beris a schelde of asure..With a dowbyll tressoure.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1500 : Hir bed..With gold of Sypirs was dight, Brad besantes full bryghte And tressours by-twene.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.3 (Hrl 2169)198 : The feld of gold, the dowbyll tressore flourte all gowlys, the lyone of the same: Roy de Scottys.