Middle English Dictionary Entry
bō̆nd(e-wǒmman n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bō̆nd(e-wǒmman n. |
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A female serf or servant.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.97 : Emila, Scipio his wif..þey sche wiste þat here housbonde lovede oon of here bonde women..sche wolde nouȝt diffame here lord.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.29 : A bonde servaunt..þe kyng..made þat bonde womman lady of lordes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)70b/b : Pride makeþ bonde men & wymmen meke & lowe.
- c1410(a1387) Legal Gloss.Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)97 : Leyrwe [read: leyrewite], amendes for liggynge by a bond womman.
- (1413-19) Doc.in Bk.Lond.E.226/48 : The forsaid Sir Richard..toke oon Julian Lampit, that was fre tenant of the kynges there, to be his bondewomman, and helde hire in prisoune tille he had raunsommed her to an c s.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)62 : Carle or chorle, bondeman or woman: Servus nativus, serva nativa.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)137.35 (v.2:p.381) : The kynde of bonde-men and bond-women [L genus seruorum] .. wyl neuere byn amendyd withoute torment.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.110/26 : I haue i-ȝeve and i-grauntid to god and to þe forsaide church anneys, my natife or bonde-woman, the which was the wife of Odo, with Raph the soone of the same Anneys.
- a1475 Legal Gloss.Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)22/2 : Leyr-wyte is amendis for defowlynge of a bonde womman.