Middle English Dictionary Entry
wachet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wachet n. Also waget, vachet, vaget, (?error) watchet. |
| Etymology | AF/ONF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A shade of blue, light blue; also, cloth of that color; ~ bleu;
(b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3321 : Yclad he was ful smal and proprely Al in a kirtel of a light waget [vrr. wachet, vachet, vaget]; Ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.44 : Hir habit was of manyfold colours: Wachet bleuh of feyned stedfastnesse, Hir gold allaied like sonne in wattri shours, Meynt with liht greene for chaung & doubilnesse.
- -?-(1407) Will in Som.RS 1631 : [My gown of] Watchet [OD col.: Wachett].
b
- (1313) Sub.R.Bristol(1) in BGAS 19225 : Johannes Wachet.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 21/36 : So badde may þy stone be þanne whanne het is weet hit wil semen but as hit were a plunket or ells a symple waget.
Note: Supplemental material.
Note: May mean 'a shade of blue, light blue,' but may be a new sense, 'a light blue dye'. Difficult to distinguish, even in context. See plunket n.--per MLL