holour
Middle English
editEtymology
editNoun
editholour
- A whoremonger.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 253-256:
- ‘And if that she be fair, thou verray knave,
Thou seyst that every holour wol hir have;
She may no whyle in chastitee abyde,
That is assailled up-on ech a syde.’- ‘And if she be fair, thou utter knave,
Thou sayest that every lecher wants to have her;
She can not remain chaste for any length of time,
Who is assailed on every side.’
- ‘And if she be fair, thou utter knave,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 253-256:
References
edit- “holour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.