bachelrie
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- bachelerie, bachelerye, bachelery, bachelrye, bachilrye
- bachelry (Standardized)
Etymology edit
From Old French bachelerie.
Noun edit
bachelrie (plural bachelries)
- (countable) a group of knights or squires
- (uncountable) chivalry; knighthood
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Hengwrt Manuscript. The Manciples Tale, folio 109a [p. 580] l. 125-6.
- This Phebus þat was flour of Bachelrye
As wel in fredom as in Chiualrye- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Hengwrt Manuscript. The Manciples Tale, folio 109a [p. 580] l. 125-6.
Descendants edit
- English: bachelry
References edit
- “bachel(e)rie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.