ribaudy
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ribaudy
- ribaldry
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 323-324:
- But right anon thise gentils gonne to crye,
‘Nay! lat him telle us of no ribaudye;’ [...]- But right away these gentlefolk began to cry,
‘Nay! let him tell us of no ribaldry;’ [...]
- But right away these gentlefolk began to cry,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 323-324:
References[edit]
- “ribaudy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.