† board-clothn.
Obsolete or northern dialect.
A cloth used to cover a table, a table cloth.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > table linen > [noun] > tablecloth
board-clothc1200
clothc1300
napec1400
tablecloth1438
underclothc1440
couchc1460
copea1475
dresser1571
coucher1572
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Hire bord cloðes ben makede wite.
1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 A boorde cloþe with .ij. towelles of deuaunt.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 Thy burdclaith neidis no spredding.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bourde cloth, or carpet.
1839 Cumberld. & Westmoreld. Dialogues 13 Spin tow for bord claiths en sheets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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board-cloth
b. With attribute expressing purpose: as altar-cloth, barm-cloth, board-cloth, bolt-cloth, bolting-cloth, chrism-cloth, loin-cloth, neck-cloth, tablecloth, etc. See these words. To this head belong the earliest recorded examples of the word, among which are Old English cildcláð child-cloth, swaddling cloth, flyhteclað patch.
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a800 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 491 Commisura (= patch) flycticlað.
a800 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 623 Cunae, cildclaðas.
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Wr.-W. 124/30) Cune, cildclaðes.
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Wr.-W. 127/2) Mappula bearmclað.
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