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Noun edit

ancille f (plural ancilles)

  1. Alternative form of ancelle

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Etymology edit

From Old French ancele, ancelle, from Latin ancilla.

Noun edit

ancille (plural ancilles)

  1. maidservant; handmaid
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)
      Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesse!
      From his ancille he made the maistresse
      Of hevene and erthe, oure bille up for to beede.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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