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† langue de bœuf Obs.
Forms: 5–6 lang(e)debefe, -beefe, -boef, -beafe, -biefe, 5 landebeffe, long debefe, long debeof, 6 langue-debiefe, -beuf, lang du beaffe, landebeuf, 7 langdebeef, -beuf, landebeef, (8 Langley beef).
[Fr.; lit. ‘ox tongue’.]
1. A name variously applied to certain boragineous and other plants with rough leaves, as Echium vulgare, Helminthia echiodes, Borrago officinalis, etc., for most of which the etymologically synonymous name bugloss has been applied.
c1400Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 84 Of water of lange de boef, a Rote. c1440Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 426 Take cole, and borage, and lang de beeff, and parsell. [c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 24 Buglossa..(gall. lange de beof), anglice oxtunge.] 1551Turner Herbal i. G iv b, Dioscorides..saythe that Cirsion (whyche I take to be oure langdebefe) hath longer leues than buglossum. 1573Tusser Husb. xxxix. (1878) 93 Seedes and herbes for the Kitchen..Langdebiefe. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxx. §2. 654 Lang de Beefe is a kinde heereof, altogither lesser. Ibid. cclxxi. 656 Landebeuf. 1601Holland Pliny II. 279 The leaves [of Cirsion] in forme resemble an ox tongue or the hearbe Langue-de-bœufe. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. i. (1668) 14 To quicken a mans wits, spirit and memory, let him take Langdebeef, which is gathered in June or July. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 146 Lang de beuf is..of like operation with Borage and Buglosse. 1732Ellis Pract. Farmer (ed. 2) 47 That called here Langley-Beef.
2. A kind of spike or halbert, with a head shaped like an ox tongue.
1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 212 Arraied in fourme of werre, with Jakkes Salettez, longe Swerdes, long Debeofs, Bore⁓speres, and all other unmerciable forbodon wepons. 1453Nottingham Rec. II. 216 Cum uno langdebefe et dagario. 1487Will of J. Cooke (Somerset Ho.), A jak, a salett & a long debefe. 1488Will of Shamebourne (ibid.), viij saletty & iiij landebeffe & pollax. 1885Fairholt Costume II. 271. |