columbyne
Middle English
Alternative forms
Adjective
columbyne
- columbine
- 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:
- Com forþ now, wiþ þyne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been þy brestes þan is wyn!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- English: columbine