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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French pouraille. See poor.
Noun
poraille
- Poor people; the poor.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
“The Frere”, column 2, lines
246–248:
It is not honeſt, it maye not auaunce / For to deale wyth ſuche porayle / But all wyth ryche and ſellers of vytayle- It is not honest, it may not advance / To deal with such poor people / But all with rich, and sellers of food