alwite
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From al (“all”) + wite (“white”).
Noun edit
alwite (uncountable)
- (hapax) alwhite, white (of armor: of polished metal plates covering the body without a surcoat)
- 1429, “Will of William Bowes, 1429”, in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, volume II, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, published 1835, pages 150 (written in a mix of Middle French, Latin and Middle English):
- Item lego predicto Will’o duas integras armaturas de optimis, viz. duas basynetlas, umbras, et rere brace, gloves de plaite, et paunce de alwite, cum le leggharnes eisdem pertin. et loricam de optimis, et optimum batleaxe, et unum gladium de Burdeux argento ornatum.
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Descendants edit
- English: alwhite