daintrel
English edit
Etymology edit
From daint or dainty. Compare Old French daintier.
Noun edit
daintrel (plural daintrels)
- (obsolete) A delicacy.
- c. 1553 (date written), “S.” [pseudonym; attributed to William Stevenson], […] Gammer Gurtons Nedle: […], London: […] Thomas Colwell, published 1575, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, Gammer Gurton’s Needle […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), [London: […] John S. Farmer], 1910, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature [Bii], recto:
- But by thy words as I thẽ smelled, thy daintrels be not manye.
References edit
- “daintrel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.