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Middle English
Noun
dragoune
- Alternative form of dragoun
1382, Wyclif's Bible, Daniel 14:26:Therfor Daniel took pitch, and talow, and heeris, and sethide togidere; and he made gobetis, and yaf in to the mouth of the dragun; and the dragun was al to-brokun.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1380-1399 — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale
For God seith thus by Moyses: they shul been wasted with hunger, and the briddes of helle shul devouren hem with bitter deeth, and the galle of the dragon shal been hire drynke, and the venym of the dragon hire morsels.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)