1domesticoccupationfemalewoman who winds off thread, spinster:
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
devacuatrices: deveuderesses
19
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
devacuatrices gallice: devoideresses
25
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Devacuatrices
gloss: (C) les devoideresses, þe wynderes (var.
(L: s.xiii) devotueres
) sunt que devacuant fila serica et mulieres aurisece [...]
ii 140.69
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