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Middle English
Noun
borel
- Alternative form of burel
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
This is to seye, if I be gay, sire shrewe,
I wol renne out, my borel for to shewe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
borel
- Alternative form of burel
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
But sires, by cause I am a burel man,
At my my bigynnyng first I yow biseche,
Have me excused of my rude speche.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
Religioun hath take up al the corn
Of tredyng, and we borel men been shrympes.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)