Middle English Dictionary Entry
trompet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | trompet n. Also trompette, trumpet(e; pl. trompetes, etc. & troumpettes, trumpettes, trumpeittes. |
| Etymology | OF trompete, trompette. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Any of several small wind instruments used primarily to proclaim, celebrate, summon, or warn; (b) fig. ~ of (the hous of) fame, the common report, rumor; (c) haven ~, to be in charge of the waits, a small body of wind instrumentalists who entertained on civic occasions.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3744 : Was non of hem that he ne hath A pot of erthe..And ech of hem ek a trompette Bar in his other hond beside.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4134 : Þe schrille trumpettis wern y-reised loude; Vp to þe skye goth þe blisful sown.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3553 : Adrastus..With a trompet warned euery man To be redy in al the hast they kan Forto remwe.
- (1442) Invent.Gild in PSAL ser.2.5122 : ij knoppes of a Trumpet of sylver that weyn ij unce.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)5589 : For folkys that lyst daunce, Ther wer trumpes and trumpetes.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)16832 : He sall sytt in þe kynges awn sted, and þe best bachelar sall be bown, his brydyll bowsomly to lede and crye with trumpeyttes thrugh all þe towne.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)2425 : Freshe trompetys..gif greet hardynesse, Strengthe, vertu, Ioye and lightnesse, Vnto the Oost which is On thy partye, And the meny discounfort of thyn Enemye.
- (1451-2) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.17 : Item, viij Baners wt lyly potts & straks for Trumpetts.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)214/36 : They fruyshed forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede..and caste their speares in feawter all at onys, and save trumpettes there was no noyse ellys.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)492 : Trumpete, or lytyl trumpe þat clepyth to me[te], or men to-gedyre.
- a1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)943 : Menstrelles was them a-monge, Trompettes, harpys, and myrre songe.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)1.7.5b : Than herd I a soun of a trumpet and after that..a voice that seid, crieng in heigh: 'Alle ye that are withowt abidyng your iugement, presentith youre selfe to fore the prouost to receyve youre dome.'
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)219 : Hors in the feeld may mustre in gret pride, Whan thei of trumpetis her the blody soun.
b
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)1193 : Whan it was knowe That this abbeye was in swych desolacyoun And be the trumpet of fame aboute blowe, The Ruuyllyans madyn a congregacyoun.
- a1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)15 : The golden trumpet of the hous of ffame..Hath blowe ful fer the knyhtly mannys name.
c
- a1525(?1438) Cov.Leet Bk.189 : Hyt is ordeyned that they Trumpet schall haue, the rule off the whaytes, and off hem be Cheffe.
2.
A trumpeter.
Associated quotations
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5236/1 : Liberati a le Trumpet per manus eiusdem, ij s.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1537 : On scafold hiȝe a-lofte, Þe noyse gan, lowde & no þing softe, Both of trompetis and of clariouneris.
- (1427-8) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)165 : Item, resseyuid For the mynstralles, clarions, and Trumpettes atte sherives ridyng and bere costis, Summa lvj s. ij d.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.2568 : A trompet stood & proudli gan to blowe, Which slayn was, & fro the tre doun throwe.
- (1450) Pat.R.Hen.VI in Archaeol.Cant.7259 : Robtus Perry, trumpet.
- (1456) Invent.Armory in Archaeol.16125 (2nd occurrence) : v Banners for Trumpetts delivered to ye Trumpetts when the Duc of Gloucestr' went to the rescowe of Caleis.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)782 : The Clarioner, Trompet, and Hornycler [L Tubicines, cornicines et bucinatores], With horn & trompe of bras and clarioun, In terribil batailis bloweth cleer, That hors & man reioyceth at the soun.
- (1464-5) Acc.Howard in RC 57483 : Item, my master gaffe to the troumpettez the same day, x s.
- (1473) RParl.6.87b : This Acte of Resumption..extend not ne be prejudiciall to oure Letters Patentes..made to..John Crowland, oone of oure Trumpettes.
- c1475 Guy(1) (Cai 107/176)2315 : His trompettis he bade blowe anone.
- a1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)2723 : The trompettis vppon the wallis went; There myght they se a wondyr thynge.
- a1525(?1429) Cov.Leet Bk.121 : To iij mynstrelles of the kynges, xx s. And to iij Trumpettes of the kynges, xx s.
3.
As surname.
Associated quotations
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52199/16 : Johannis Trumpet.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52269/10 : Thome trumpet.