ancille

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French

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Noun

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ancille f (plural ancilles)

  1. Alternative form of ancelle

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Etymology

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From Old French ancele, ancelle, from Latin ancilla.

Noun

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ancille (plural ancilles)

  1. 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)

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