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French
Noun
ancille f (plural ancilles)
- Alternative form of ancelle
Further reading
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French ancele, ancelle, from Latin ancilla.
Noun
ancille (plural ancilles)
- maidservant; handmaid
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)
Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesse!
From his ancille he made the maistresse
Of hevene and erthe, oure bille up for to beede.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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