ceynt
Middle English
Noun
ceynt
- a girdle
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in [The Canterbury Tales] (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 6, recto:
- […] Girt with a ceynt of sylk […]
- […] girt with a belt of silk […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ceynt” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)