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† chevese Obs.
Forms: 1 (cebis), ciefes, cifes, cefes, ceafes, cyfys, cyfese, 3 chivese, chevese.
[OE. cębis (= ƀ), cęfes, ciefes, cifes, cyfes str. fem., and ciefese, cyfese wk. fem.:—WGer. kavis, kavisâ, MLG. keves, kevese, MDu. kefse, kevisse, Du. kevis, OHG. chebis, chebisa (MHG. kebes, keb(e)se, Ger. kebse):—OTeut. *kaƀisjâ-, *kaƀisjôn-. ON. has a cognate masculine kefsir (:—kaƀisjo-z).]
A concubine, mistress, leman.
a700Epinal Gloss. 745 Pelices, cebisae—Erf. [? pellex] caebis. a800Corpus Gl. 1540 Pelices, cebise. c893K. ælfred Oros. vi. xxx. §4 His suna..ðone he haefde be Elenan his ciefese. a1000in Thorpe Laws I. 406 (Bosw.) Se ðe hæbbe riht wif, and eac cifese [v.r. ceafese, cefese]. c1205Lay. 6356 Ane chiuese [1275 lemman] him ichæs. c1225St. Marher. 3 Yef ha is freo wummon, ich hire wull habben ant to wif halden; yef ha theowe is, ich cheose hire to cheuese.
cheves-born a., born of a concubine, bastard.
c1205Lay. 4334 Eært þu þenne cheues-boren [1275 cheuis-bore]. |