Middle English Dictionary Entry
cuppe-bō̆rd n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cuppe-bō̆rd n. Also copberd, copard, cobbord, coberd. |
| Etymology | From cuppe & bō̆rd. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A sideboard; ~ banker, sideboard cover; ~ cloth, sideboard cloth.
Associated quotations
- (1375) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.179 : [The] cuppebord [with mirrors, in the hall of the aforesaid tenement].
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5264/1 : Carpentario facienti..j cuppeburde in aula.
- (1400) Will York in Sur.Soc.4514 : Pro ij pannis lineis pro alto copard.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1440 : Mony burþen ful bryȝt..covered mony a cupborde with cloþes ful quite.
- (1420-1) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.503 : v cobbordes.
- (1423) Will York in Sur.Soc.4572 : Pro ij coopertoriis, vocatis copeburde clothys, de rubeo worsted.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)206 : The kynges cope-borde was closed in siluer.
- (1448-9) Will York in Sur.Soc.45108 : De j hallynge veteri de rubio say..cum..j copbord-cloth de eadem.
- (1450) Lin.DDoc.40/17 : A Copberd.
- (1452-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99147 : Panni linei empt. pro..lez cuppbordclothes.
- (1454) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99149 : j coppebordclathe.
- (1459) Paston (Gairdner)3.182 : Item, j cobbordclothe.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4925 : Cuppeburd bankers.
- (?1474) Stonor1.147 : A coberde cloþe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)193 : Cover þy cuppeborde of thy ewery with the towelle of diapery.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)84 : Every officer shulde have noo more silver vesselle but for a chapelle and a cupbourde.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)75 : He serveth the Kinge at the cup-bourde and barre..both with the cuppebourde clothe, pottes and cuppes for wyne or ale.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)28a : A Copeburde: Abacus.
- a1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)16/19,25 : Laste of all þe boteler wyth þe copborde clothe on his shulder..Then shall þe butler lay downe his copborde clothe and sette þe pottes þeron.