mistihead
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mistihead
- (nonce word) mistiness
- 14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, A Goodly Ballad of Chaucer; republished as David Laing Purves, compiler, The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems, 1870:
- And Phoebus your father, with his streames red, / Adorns the morrow, consuming the sort / Of misty cloudes, that would overlade / True humble heartes with their mistihead.
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References
[edit]- “mistihead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.