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† playfere Obs.|ˈpleɪfɪə(r)|
Forms: 3 plaȝe iuere, pleiuere, 3–4 pleifere, 4 plaw-, plowe-, pleyefere, 4–7 pleyfere, 5–8 playfere, (5 -uere, fer, 5–7 -feer, -feere, 6 -fiere, -feir, -feare, 7 -pheer(e; 5 pleyfer, playefere, 6 -feere, plaifere, -feere, -fiere, -faier).
[f. play n. + fere n.1, companion, comrade.]
A companion at play, a playfellow, playmate; a companion generally, or in any action or course.
c1205Lay. 15631 Ifunden Mærlin & his plaȝe-iueren [c 1275 pleiueres] mid him. a1225Juliana 56 Þi sari gast schal wið þe schucke pleiferen pleien in helle. c1305St. Edmund Conf. 64 in E.E.P. (1862) 72 Wiþ þe ic go in eche stede..& þi pleyfere ic am. a1310in Wright Lyric Poetry xv. 49 Glotonie mi glemon wes,..Prude wes my plowe fere. 1388Wyclif Judg. xi. 38 Whanne sche hadde go with hir felowis and pleiferis [1535 Coverd. playefeeres], sche biwepte hir maydynhed in the hillis. a1400Transl. N.T., Acts xiii. 1 (Paues 157) Manaen þat was þo plawfere [Vulg. collactaneus] of Herowde þo Tetrarke. c1470Harding Chron. clxxviii. vi, Roger Mortymer..was that tyme the quenes playfeer. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 33 One of his wanton mates and vnthriftie plaifaiers. 1612Two Noble K. iv. iii. 79 Learne what maides haue beene her companions and play-pheeres. a1765Jew's Daughter ii. in Child Ballads (1888) III. 244/1, I winna cum in, I cannae cum in, Without my play-feres nine.
fig.13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 45 Thus pouerté & pacyence are nedes play-feres. |