α. Middle English rotoure, Middle English roytour, Middle English 1800s– rotour.
β. 1800s roter.
单词 | rotour |
释义 | rotourn.α. Middle English rotoure, Middle English roytour, Middle English 1800s– rotour. β. 1800s roter. Now historical and rare. A person who plays the rote (rote n.2).In quot. c1475 perhaps an error for riotour (see riotor n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > player of early fiddle rotour1395 ribibourc1400 crowderc1450 rebec1540 crowd1607 1395–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 599 (MED) Uni Rotour de Scocia, 6 s. 8 d. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1042 Ȝyf þou euer with iogeloure, with hasadoure, or with rotoure [v.r. roytour] Hauntyst tauerne..Hyt ys aȝens þe comaundment And holy cherches asent. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 35 (MED) He is a persone..of fair figure, A yong rotour, redy to hir pleasier. 1852 Archæologia Cambrensis 3 45 The rotour or roter was a sort of minstrel who played on the rote, a kind of hurdygurdy. 1903 J. C. Cox Strutt's Sports & Pastimes (new ed.) iii. iii. 152 A reward of 6s. 8d. was given to a rotour..on St Cuthbert's Day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1395 |
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