gipser
See also: Gipser
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]French gibecière (“a game pouch or game pocket”). Compare gibbier.
Noun
[edit]gipser (plural gipsers)
- (historical) A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
- 1710, Thomas Rymer, Foedera:
- A Gipser of Gold, Garnisshed with Rubies and Perle, Bought of the said Mathew
References
[edit]- “gipser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gipser
- gipser
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, 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:
- An anlas and a gipser al of silk
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