waget

See also: wäget

German

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Verb

waget

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of wagen

Middle English

Noun

waget

1. cloth or clothes of a light blue color

   waget:  

   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light waget — ful faire and thikke ben the poyntes set.

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Descendants

• English: watchet