Talk:cupboard
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- “Wycliffe Bible and that other are Middle English”
Sense:
- (obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet.
- c. 1380, John Wycliffe, Of Antecrist and his Meynee; published as John Wycliffe; James Henthorn Todd, Three Treatises by John Wycklyffe, D.D. I. Of the Church and Her Members. II. Of the Apostacy of the Church. III. Of Antichrist and His Meynee. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with Notes and a Glossary, by James Henthorn Todd, D.D., Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-Street, booksellers to the University, 1851, OCLC 505328367, page cl:
- c. 1400, the Alliterative Morte Arthure; published as James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Morte Arthure. The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral, Brixton Hill, London: For private circulation only, 1947, OCLC 5347067, page 18:
J3133 (talk) 09:13, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- I moved the quotations to new entry Middle English cuppeborde and removed rfc-sense. That leaves an rfv-sense on the definition. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 19:13, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- I added a single citation proving that this Middle English form survived to Modern English. OED has several more if anybody needs three modern uses. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 18:40, 12 December 2020 (UTC)