ancille
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ancille f (plural ancilles)
- Alternative form of ancelle
Further reading[edit]
- “ancille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French ancele, ancelle, from Latin ancilla.
Noun[edit]
ancille (plural ancilles)
- maidservant; handmaid
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)
- Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesse!
From his ancille he made the maistresse
Of hevene and erthe, oure bille up for to beede.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)
References[edit]
- “ancille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.