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† ˈjarecork Obs.
[f. jare, of unascertained origin + cork n.2]
A kind of purple or red dye-stuff, obtained from various lichens.
1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 Que nul tinctour nauter person tinct..ascun drap launs ouesque orchel ou corke appell' iarecorke sur peine de forfeiture et perdicion de xls. 1483tr. Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 §3 Diers..usen to die great quantite as well of fyne as of course Clothes with Orchell and Corke brought from beyonde the See called Jarecork.
¶ In Cowell's Interpreter 1607, this word was misprinted Iarrock, and this blundered form was handed down as ‘a kind of cork so called’, in the law dictionaries of 17th and 18th c., and in the general dictionaries of Phillips, Coles, Bailey, and Ash, still appearing in those of Halliwell and Wright. |