borel
Middle English
Noun
borel
- alternative form of burel
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- This is to seye, if I be gay, sire shrewe,
I wol renne out, my borel for to shewe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
borel
- alternative form of burel
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- But sires, by cause I am a burel man,
At my my bigynnyng first I yow biseche,
Have me excused of my rude speche.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Religioun hath take up al the corn
Of tredyng, and we borel men been shrympes.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)