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Middle English
- gylur, gylour, guilour, giloure, gilowre, gyllor, gyuler, gyloure, gylor, gyler, giler, gilur
Etymology
From Old French guilëor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡiːlur/, /ˈɡiːlər/
Noun
gilour (plural gilours)
- deceiver, beguiler, betrayer
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:And þow hast gyuen hire to a gyloure · now god gyf þe sorwe.- And you have given her to a deceiver—now may God give you sorrow!
- mocker, scoffer
- the Devil, Satan
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