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Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman argoil, from Latin argilla (“clay”).
Noun
argoile
- potter's clay
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in , editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio lxiv, verso:
Cley made w horse dũge, mans heere, & oyle
Of tartre alim, glas, berme, worte, & argoile- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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