chainse
Old French
Etymology
From chainsil (a white, fine cloth of linen or hemp).
Noun
chainse m (oblique plural chainses, nominative singular chainses, nominative plural chainse)
- a long women's robe of white linen, worn over the chemise and normally beneath a tunic (bliaut or cote)
- Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, c. 1180, ed. Foerster, 402-406:
- Et sa fille qui fu vestue / D'une chemise par panz lee, / Delïee, blanche et ridee. / Un blanc chainse ot vestu dessus; / N'avoit robe ne mains ne plus.
- Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, c. 1180, ed. Foerster, 402-406:
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chainse)
- Dorothy Gilbert, Erec and Enide, 1992, →ISBN, p. 256
- Monica L. Wright, Weaving narrative: clothing in twelfth-century French romance, 2009, →ISBN, p. 57
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