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† ˈguary Obs.
Also 5 garye.
[Cornish guare (in full guare mirakel), cogn. with Welsh chwareu to play.]
An ancient Cornish miracle play.
c1460Emare 1032 Thys ys on of Brytayne layes, That was used by olde dayes, Men callys playn the garye. 1602Carew Cornwall i. (1723) 71 b, The Guary miracle, in English, a miracle-play, is a kinde of Enterlude, compiled in Cornish out of some scripture history, with that grossenes, which accompanied the Romanes vetus Comedia. Ibid. 72 A great deale more sport and laughter, then 20 such Guaries could haue afforded. |