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† holour Obs.
Forms: 3 huler, 3–4 holer, 4 holyer, houlloure, 4–5 houlour(e, holour(e, 5 -or, hullour, -owre, -ur, -ar, hulour.
[a. OF. holier, holer, huler (later also houlleur), var. of horier, hourier, hurier, ad. OHG. huorari, huareri (MHG. huorer, Ger. hurer), whorer, fornicator. The first r became l in OF. by dissimilation, as in peregrinus, pelegrin, pilgrim.]
A fornicator, whoremonger; a debauchee, ribald.
c1230Hali Meid. 31 [He] tukeð þe to bismere as huler his hore. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 26 Ȝef alle luþer holers were y serued so, Me schulde fynde þe les such spouse bruche do. c1340Ayenb. 51 Þanne he becomþ ribaud holyer and þyef. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Lucy 226 Þe presydent gert hyme bryng Sere houlouris. c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 254 Thou seyst that euery holour [v.r. hullur] wol hire haue. ― Pars. T. ⁋783 Thise olde dotardes holours [v.rr. holors, houlours, hulours]. c1440Promp. Parv. 252/2 Hullowre, idem quod Horel. c1460Towneley Myst. xxiv. 373 Thise dysars and this hullars, Thise cokkers and thise bollars, And alle purscuttars.
Hence † holoury (holorie), fornication.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxv. 391 Þe þridde is clept Holorie. |