1femaleoccupationtextilefemale weaver, woman who makes woven fabric on a loom:
(
MS: s.xiii1
) textrices: tisseresses
19.66
(
c.1290;
MS: s.xivin
) Les tremes
(M.E. þe spoles) fray appariller A la tistresse pur tistrer
(M.E. to weve)
354
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
) textrices: (D) tytresses
ii 139.67
(
s.xiv1;
MS: s.xivm
) Anna [...] s’en vait chescun jour a l’oevereigne de tisteresce, et aporta le vivre qe ele poeit gaigner del travaile de ses mains
77-78
(
s.xvin;
MS: s.xv1
) Et la tisteresse quant parubblé ad Tantost lez tromez ele vaudrat
36.13
tistresse (s.xiii1)