Middle English Dictionary Entry
carelle n.
Entry Info
Forms | carelle n. |
Etymology | ML carellus & OF carrel a four-cornered pillow. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A kind of pillow or bolster.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)100b/a : And bihynd þe spaldez be put a pilowe or a carelle [*Ch.(2): fardel; L carellus], round or gibbose.