levesel
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English leaf (“leaf”) + sele (“room, hall”).
Noun
editlevesel
- a leafy shelter or seat; a place covered with foliage; an arbor
- Chaucer:
- Behind the mill, under a levesel.
References
edit- “levesel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.