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Stafford|ˈstæfəd|
The name of a town in England (the county town of Staffordshire); also a surname derived from this. Used attrib. as in Stafford blue, some kind of blue cloth; Stafford('s) knot Her., a knot used as a badge of the Stafford family; hence, a form of knot resembling this; † Stafford law, ‘club law’, with pun on staff; so † Stafford court. Also used for Staffordshire, as in Stafford brick (see quot. 1908).
c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 200 Thou were worthi be cled In *stafford blew; ffor thou art alway adred.
1908Animal Management (Vet. Departm., War Office) 48 ‘Candy’, ‘blue *Stafford’, ‘Dutch’, and ‘adamantine clinkers’ being the names of familiar varieties [of vitrified bricks].
1611Cotgr. s.v. Festin, Il a esté au festin de Martin baston, He hath had a triall in *Stafford Court.
1552Invent. Ch. Goods York, etc. (Surtees) 49, iij sewtes of vestmentes with *Stafforde knotes. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I, Stafford Knot, a badge used by the family of Stafford. 1847Gloss. Heraldry 197 Stafford's Knot. 1868Walcott Sacred Archæol. 507 A true-love-knot..was the well-known Stafford knot.
1589Hay any Work Aiij, I threatned him with blowes, and to deale by *stafford law. 1599Breton Will of Wit, etc. (Grosart) 29/1 And among souldiours Stafford law, martiall law, killing or hanging is soone learned. 1615Bedwell Moham. Impost. i. §26 The Alkoran of Mohammed established by Stafford law. 1647M. Corbet Sp. 31 July 5 We have unlawfully erected Marshall Law, Club Law, Stafford Law, and such lawless Laws as make most for Treason. |