Middle English Dictionary Entry
cō̆ster n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | cō̆ster n.(1) Also costour, coustur. Pl. cost(e)res. |
| Etymology | AL costera side, coast, curtain, etc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An ornamental hanging for a wall, bed, etc.
Associated quotations
- [ (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3153 : Ad faciendum..duas aulas de worsted..cont. j dossar..iiij costeras. ]
- [ (1376) Will in Nichols Col.Wills (1780)70 : Et voloms q' les costres de la dit sale soient pur pendre en le quer tout du long paramont les estallez. ]
- (1395) EEWills5/1 : I bequethe..an Halle with docere, costers and bankers, of sute of that forseyde bed.
- (1397) Will York in Sur.Soc.4218 : Meam aulam..cum omnibus costers & banqwers.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)46 : Þat Elizabeth my wief have an halle and docer and ij costours steyned with þe sege of Troye.
- (1423-4) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.177/1139 : For hangynge of þe doser and costers, with þe hangynge of þe coster yn þe parlour.
- (1425) EEWills65/14 : A browded bed wiþ þe costures þerto.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)94 : Coostre of an halle: Subauleum.
- (1447) EEWills131/21 : I bequethe to my wyfe..helyng Costurs of hallys and chambrys and kechyn.
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.49/7 : I will he haf the whitte bede with merletes of silke with cousturs yerto for the canibur [?read: cambur] for the hall for the chapill & the auter.
- (a1455) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xlix : The seid misrulid persones..with gleives..hewe downe the beddes, costeres, and hongynges of hall and chaumbres ther being.
- (1464-5) Acc.Howard in RC 57486 : My master payd to his bedmaker at London fore x li. lyere fore the grett costere..for viij li. lyere for odre ij costres.
- a1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)11/6 : All þe hallynges and costers dressed in þer kynde places.