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Middle English
Etymology
See lord
Noun
laford
- (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of lord
a. 1175, Cotton Homilies, section 243:
- 1894, Bodleian Library. Manuscript. 343; Napier, Arthur S., History of the Holy Rood-tree: a twelfth century version of the cross-legend...
Ða answærde he [sē cniht] him ⁊ cwæð; Eala laford moyses sonæ swa ic þa ȝyrdan nimæn wolde...- He answered him and said, "Lo, lord Moses, just as I was about to grasp the rods...