emeraud

English

Noun

emeraud (plural emerauds)

1. Obsolete form of emerald.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine,
     Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red,
     Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened

References

• “emeraud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

emeraud

1. Alternative form of emeraude