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Middle English
Noun
semy cope
- a short cope, or an inferior kind of cope.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
Of double worstede was hys semy cope / So rounded was as a bell out of presse- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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