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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English openears; equivalent to open + ers.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔːpənɛrs/, /ˈɔːpənars/
Noun
open-ers (plural open-erses) (rare)
- The fruit of the common medlar (Crataegus germanica, syn. Mespilus germanica)
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Reeve's Prologue’, Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere manuscript):
But if I fare as dooth an Openers / That ilke fruyt is euer leng the wers / Til it be roten in Mullok or in stree [...].- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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