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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French haironcel, diminutive of heiron.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛrunˈsɛu̯/, /ˈhɛrunsɛu̯/, /ˈhɛr(ə)nsɛu̯/, /hɛi̯-/, /hɛː-/
Noun
heronsewe (plural heronsewes)
- The young of the grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Squyers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
I wol nat tellen / of hir strange sewes / Ne of hir swannes / nor of hire heronsewes […].- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- The meat of a heron used as food.
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