maunciple
Middle English
Alternative forms
- manciple, mawnciple, mawncyple
Etymology
From Old French manciple.
Noun
maunciple (needs inflection)
- manciple (person in charge of storing food)
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Maunciples Tale”, in Tales of Caunterbury, lines 56–59:
- And to the maunciple thanne spak our host, / 'By-cause drink hath dominacioun / Upon this man, by my savacioun / I trowe he lewedly wolde telle his tale.
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Descendants
- English: manciple
References
- “maunciple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Further reading
the Manciple's Tale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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