Citations:hiphalt

English citations of hiphalt

2006, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, page 266:
The King had created this hiphalt, upspring northerner Marshal of England for the term of his life, and that was a title that belonged of right to the Mowbrays.

c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
He had a courbe upon the back,
And therto he was hippe-halt
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1431, Walter Halliday, The Tournament of Totenham:
To that rich fest come mony for the nonys: Sum come hiphalt, and sum trippande thither on the stonys: Sum with a staffe in his honde, and sum too at onys: Of sum were the hedis brokyn, of sum the schulder bonys: With sorow come they thiður
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