eglateren.
/ɛɡləˈtɪə/ Obsolete exc. poetic.
= eglantine n.1
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a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 Bedegar est nodus rosæ albæ silvestris, vulgari nomine, eglenter.
1459 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 226 Ij gilt peces with ij coverkills with treiles of eglenters.
1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 366/1 I..Thought sodainly I felt so sweet an aire Of the eglentere.
1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 366/1 The hegge..With sicamour was set and eglatere.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Dirge iv, in Poems 106 The woodbine and eglatere Drip sweeter dews than traitor's tear.
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