daughtren

English

Etymology

From Middle English doughtren; equivalent to daughter +‎ -en (plural ending).

Noun

daughtren pl

1. (archaic) plural of daughter
   • 1563: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church, page 298 (1844 republication)

     The twoe women that bare vp this pot, are pride, and lust of flesh, that be cleped, in holie writ, ‘the twey daughtren of the water-leche, crying, bring, bring.’