sompnour
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French semoneor; equivalent to somonen, sompnen + -our.
Noun edit
sompnour
- summoner
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 1665-1667:
- This Somnour in his stiropes hye stood;
Up-on this Frere his herte was so wood,
That lyk an aspen leef he quook for yre.- This Summoner in his stirrups stood high;
Upon this Friar his heart was so enraged,
That like an aspen leaf he quaked for ire.
- This Summoner in his stirrups stood high;
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 1665-1667:
References edit
- “sompnour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.