Middle English Dictionary Entry
blanket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | blanket n. Also blaunket, blenket, blonket, blunket, blancketh, blanked. |
| Etymology | OF blanket, var. of blanchet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of woolen cloth (often white or undyed); (b) a blanket.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1155 : Blac was is cope a-boue, is Cuyrtel ȝwijt blaunket.
- (1354) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99174 : Exp. In iiijxx ulnis blanket pro langels.
- (1394) Will York in Sur.Soc.4185 : Half a clathe of gude white blanket.
- (1407) Will in Bk.Lond.E.213/4 : That Alyson..haue cloth for a gowne lynyd with blanket.
- (1421) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103617 : Blonket et lyght grene pro vestura.
- (1429) RParl.4.361a : Yat tyme yai boughten..Westorn blankett of Vyse and Bekenton.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)38 : Blankett, vollon [vr. wolyn] clothe: Lodix.
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.50/26 : vj ȝerdes of blanket & vj ȝerdes of lynne cloth.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57319 : A yerd of ffyne blankett..x d.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340:Halliwell)294 : Take new blanket cloth and kut feire pelotis of an ench long.
- (c1475) Stonor1.153 : A ȝerde of blankked..v d.
- a1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)367 : Here belle [IrBl: belte] was of blunket [Thrn: plonkete; IrBl: blenket] with birdes ful bolde.
b
- (1303) Acc.Executors in Camd.n.s.1057 : De uno blaunket et uno cuverlyt.
- (1346) Will York in Sur.Soc.423 : ij lintheaminea cum uno blanket.
- (1360) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29153 : In lectis hospitum, ij chalonnes, ij blankettes.
- (1387) *Mun.B.Bridgewater733 : j blankat et j linthiamen.
- (1395) EEWills6/3 : My thridde beste fetherbed, with caneuas materas, twey blankettes.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)10.254 : Cam no wyn in hus wombe..Noþer blankett in hus bed.
- (c1425) Stonor1.43 : j materas, ij blankettes, j pare linthiam.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)38 : Blankett, lawngelle: Langellus.
- [ (1449) Will Uvedale in SAC 3154 : Lego Johanni servienti meo..lectum album cum blankettibus et lynthiannibus, celo, curteyns, et omnibus aliis eidem lecto pertinentibus. ]
- (1450) Lin.DDoc.40/4 : A paire of the best blankettes.
- (1473) RParl.6.37b : xvi payre of Blanketts.
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)626 : Lodex: blancketh.