Middle English Dictionary Entry
chaumbering ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | chaumbering ger. Also chaumering. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Maid service; (b) curtains enclosing a bed; (c) restraint (in speaking).
Associated quotations
a
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)521 : Chaumbring stabiling..seruicis of the ostiler.
b
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30174 : j blake bede with the chawmering of the same.
- (1468) Will York in Sur.Soc.45162 : Ac le chaumberyng de rubio sago.
c
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.124 : Crist bi chaumbring of þes wordis tauȝte men to flee boost.