† frumentn.
Obsolete.
1. Corn.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun]
corn871
curnsa1400
frumentc1440
stuff1461
victual1473
plough-meat1580
fourment1601
breadstuff1793
white victual1799
cereal1832
corn-chandlery1883
mutt-eye1946
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun]
corn871
grainc1315
frumentc1440
stuff1461
c1440 J. Lydgate Lyfe St. Albon (1534) A iij Grayne of this frument was this man Albon.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. D Fulsome feldes, abundaunt of frument.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. vii. 560 When the Bruers steep their wheat or frument in water.
2. = frumenty n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] > brose
frumenty?c1390
frumenta1513
drammock1563
brose1657
crowdie1668
pease brose1811
browis1831
whey-brose1894
siot1936
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxxviiiv Frument with venyson.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 173 Bread, and Fruments [L. pultes] and Wine.
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