levesel
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English leaf (“leaf”) + sele (“room, hall”).
Noun
levesel
- a leafy shelter or seat; a place covered with foliage; an arbor
- Chaucer:
- Behind the mill, under a levesel.
References
- levesel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.