Middle English Dictionary Entry
vessẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vessẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | AF; could also be construed as AF itself, but cp. EMnE vesse n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
?A kind of worsted fabric.
Associated quotations
- (1483-4) Statutes Realm2.489 : Provided…that this Acte…extende not…to the makynge of eny Clothe called…Plounkettes, Turkyns, or Celestrines…nor to eny Clothes…called Vessees [F vessees], Cogware, or Worstedes.