Talk:clergeon

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clergeon

• (obsolete) A chorister boy.
  • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prioresses Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

    a litel clergeon, seven yeer of age

Changed to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

In OED under clergion. Nothing after 1400, although there is a 1540 use where it seems to mean "songbird". This, that and the other (talk) 07:56, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 02:53, 20 March 2022 (UTC)