clergeon
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare clerc.
Noun[edit]
clergeon
- a chorister boy
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prioresses Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
- a litel clergeon, seven yeer of age
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References[edit]
- clergeon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.