10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UMBRERE»
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umbrere in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Companion to Arthurian Literature
By the fourteenth century, the helmet had acquired a movable visor, the umbrere,
which the Red Knight lifts because he cannot quite. Wolde she noght with hir
bere [carried nothing with her] Bot a lyttil scotte-spere,2 [javelin] Agayn hir son
yode ...
2
Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest ...
UMBRERE. The movable part of a helmet — the umbril. In Sir Percival of Galles
we have " And for to see him with syghte, He putt his umbrere on highte, To
byholde how he was dyghte." UMBRIL. The projection like the peak of a cap over
the ...
Frederick William Fairholt, 1846
3
English Language Word Builder
... THRYMSA TINHORN TOESHOE TONDINO TOPMAST TOWBOAT TRANGLE
TRIARCHY TRIGLOT TRIPOLI TRYSAIL TUNDISH+ TURPETH TYLOPOD
UMBRERE UPSTAIR UTRICLE VACUOLE VARIOLAL VERMELL VICOMTE
VIRANDA ...
4
Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
And than sir Lameroke kneled adowne and unlaced fyrst his umbrere and than
his owne, and than aythir kyssed othir with wepynge tearys. Than sir Lamerok led
sir Bellyaunce to an abbey faste by, and there sir Lamerok wolde nat departe ...
Jill Mann, Mark David Rasmussen, 2014
17o. bedight: bedecked. 17o. attrapt: furnished with trappings, decked out. 170.
Salvagesse sans finesse: wildness without cunning. 171. umbriere (or umbrere):
a defence for the face, attached to a. helmet. 172. an armed knight: Sir Arthegall.
6
Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte ...
And than sir Lameroke kneled adowne and unlaced fyrst his umbrere [vizor] and
than his owne, and than aythir kyssed othir with wepynge tearys. Than sir
Lamerok led sir Bellyaunce to an abbey faste by, and there sir Lamerok wolde
nat ...
7
The Mabinogion: from the Llyfr. Cocho Hergest, and other ...
Percival on hearing this, without a moment's hesitation mounts his mare and
follows the Red Knight, calling after him to restore the golden cup. The knight,
marvelling doubtless at his strange array, " putt his umbrere on highte To by
halde how ...
Charlotte Schreiber, 1838
Whereas Geoffrey of Monmouth told that Lucius was slain by a knight unknown,
in this poem he dies at Arthur's hand, and the King's prowess is thus described:
The emperour thane egerly at Arthure he strykez, Awkwarde on the umbrere, and
...
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, 2013
9
Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls
As regards the allegation that the debtor was allowed to go at large for default of
enrolment, 1 An umbrere (N.E.D.) or visor for a basinet, the latter being a light
steel headpiece. he pleaded that, while the action was still pending and 266
ROLL ...
Arthur Hermann Thomas, 1929
10
Middle English Dictionary
Shadow, darkness; —used in fig. context. c!475(?a!430) Lydg. Pilgr. (Tbr) 22310:
The party off my vysage Whiche is clowded with vmbrage, Off cleernesse scholde
haue no reporte. umbrai n. Cp. umbrari n., umbrel n., umbrere n. [Prob. from AF ...
Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis, 1997
