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piepowder, a. and n.|ˈpaɪpaʊdə(r)|
Forms: 3 (adj.) pepoudrous, -rus, Sc. piepowdrous, pipouderous, -rus, pipuderous, 5 pypoudrus; (n.) 4 pipoudre, 5–6 pepowder, 5–9 pipowder, 6 pipoulder, 6–8 pye(-)powder, 7 pye-poulder, -pouldre, pi-, pie-, pypouder, pypoudre, 7–8 py(-)powder, 7– pie(-)powder, 8– pie(-)poudre.
[Anglo-Fr. had in 13th c. piepuldrus, -pouldrous, -poudrous = F. pied-poudreux adj., sing. and pl., = med.(Anglo-)L. pede-pulverōsus dusty of foot, dusty-footed, also as n., a dusty-footed man, a dustyfoot, a wayfarer, itinerant merchant, etc.; found also in 15th c. English, and in 15–16th c. Scottish versions of the Burgh Laws. ME. had pie-poudres, pie-powders n. pl., wayfarers, esp. in the designation Court of Piepowders = Court of wayfarers or travelling traders, whence through the attrib. use in Piepowder Court came the less correct Court of Piepowder.]
†1. (piepoudrous, etc.) adj. ‘Dusty-footed’; wayfaring, itinerant; absol. as n. sing. and pl. = 2. Obs.
1220–1Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 67 Terminare querelas transeuntium per villam qui moram non poterunt facere, qui dicuntur pepoudrous. a1267Bracton v. i. vi. §6 (Rolls) 126–7 Propter personas qui celerem habere debent justitiam, sicut sunt mercatores quibus exibetur justitia pepoudrous [v.r. pepoudrus]. a1300Leges Burg. xxix. in Stat. Scotl. I. App. v. 361 De placito inter piepoudrous [Skene, pede pulverosum et alios]. Si quis extraneus mercator..vagans qui vocatur piepowdrous [Skene, piepouldreux] hoc est anglice dustifute [tr. a 1500 Ony stranger man merchand..beand vagabund in þe contre þe quhilk is callit pipouderus]. Ibid. xxxi. ibid. 362 Burgenses qui sunt mercatores et pedepuluerosi [tr. Burges or merchandis or pipouderous]. a1436Domesday Ipswich in Black Bk. Admir. (Rolls) II. 23 The plees be twixe straunge folk that men clepeth pypoudrus, shuldene ben pleted from day to day. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Burrow Lawes 136 Ane stranger merchand..vaigand fra ane place to ane other, quha therefore is called pied⁓puldreux, or dustifute.
2. (piepowder) n.
†a. A travelling man, a wayfarer, esp. an itinerant merchant or trader. Chiefly used in Court of Piepowders, a summary court formerly held at fairs and markets to administer justice among itinerant dealers and others temporarily present.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 319 To ben of conceill ffor causis þat in þe court hangid, And pledid pipoudris alle manere pleyntis. 1477Rolls of Parlt. VI. 187 To iche of the same Feyres is of right perteynyng a Court of Pepowders. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. i. vii. (1638) 13 To every fair and market is incident..a Court of Pipowders. 1614B. Jonson Bart. Fair ii. i, Many are the yeerely enormities of this Fayre, in whose Courts of Pye-pouldres I haue had the honour during the three dayes sometimes to sit as Iudge. 1658Phillips, Piepouders Court [ed. 1678 Pie-Powders Court; 1706 Pie-Powder Court]. a1735Arbuthnot John Bull ii. xvi, Dost think, that John Bull will be tried by Piepowders?
b. attrib. and n. sing. esp. in Piepowder Court, Court of Piepowder = Court of Piepowders (in a).
1574in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 335 That the citie, by auncient usage have a Pipoulder Courte, commonly called the Courte of Delyverannce, for thexpedition of strangers. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Pedlar 138 His pypouder court is his onely terror. 1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 306 To..Have its Proceedings disallow'd, or Allow'd, at fancy of Py-powder. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 180 The Steward of the Sheriffs Turn, or a Leet, or of a Court of Piepowder. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. iv. 32 The lowest, and at the same time the most expeditious, court of justice known to the law of England is the court of piepoudre, curia pedis pulverizati. a1797H. Walpole Geo. II (1847) II. iii. 113 Such poor little shifts and evasions might do in a pie-poudre court. 1881Newcastle Proclam. of Fair in Antiquary Oct. 180/2 Notice is Hereby Further Given, That a Court of Piepowder will be holden during the time of this Fair, that is to say, one in the forenoon, another in the afternoon. 1896Daily News 21 July 8/3 The government of the town [Hemel Hempstead] at present ostensibly rests in a Bailiff, Bailiff's Committee, and Court of Pie Poudre, though in reality in the Parish and District Councils. |