gyderesse
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gyderesse
- a female guide
- 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
- thou that art gyderesse of verray light, the thinges that thou hast seid me hidirto ben to me so cleer and so schewynge by the devyne lookynge of hem, and by thy resouns, that they ne mowen nat been overcomen.
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