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单词 quaintrelle
释义

quaintrellen.

Forms: late Middle English queyntrelle.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cointerelle.
Etymology: < Middle French cointerelle (14th cent. in the passage translated in quot. c1450; use as noun of feminine of Old French, Middle French cointerel vain < cointe quaint adj. + -erel : see -rel suffix ), apparently with assimilation of the first element to quaint adj. Compare quaintry n.The surnames Ralph Cointerell (1223), Philip Coynterel (1250) probably reflect currency in Anglo-Norman of the Old French adjective.
Obsolete. rare.
A finely-dressed woman.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who is smartly or elegantly dressed
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c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 160 (MED) It folweth nouht that, thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle [Fr. fais la cointerelle], that for swich cause j am fair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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