semy cope
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- a short cope, or an inferior kind of cope.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, 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:
- Of double worstede was hys semy cope / So rounded was as a bell out of presse
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “semicope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.