Middle English Dictionary Entry
coria(u)ndre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | coria(u)ndre n. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. coliaundre.
1.
(a) The plant coriander (Coriandrum sativum) or its seed; ~ sed, sed ~; (b) red ~, ?some similar plant with red flowers.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)220a/b : Off Coriandre..þe seed..y take in swete melk makeþ men þe more prest to serue venus.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)332/16 : Do þerto iuys of coriandre grene.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)118 : Toward nyght ete some fenel Rede..or coriandre sede.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Num.11.7 : Manna forsothe was as the seed coryaundre [WB(2): seed of coriaundre], of the colour of bdelli.
- ?a1425(1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)12b : Coryandyr is of colde nature..Autours saiþe that so many daies shall woman flouris stonde as she etiþ cornes of coryandry.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)116b/a : Poudre of gynger, of coriandre, and of saffran.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.578 : Now tesul, cresse, & coriaunder growe.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)126 : Zenocates seide þat a woman flourz shulde faile here as many dayes as she etyþ coriandre sedde cornes.
b
- ?a1425(1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)35a : Talowe and rede coryandyr.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Bal 329)204 : Take..þis erbe and talowe and red coryaundre.