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feliparius

feliparius [ME feliper, OF felpier, feupier, frepier < *faluppa] , fripperer, dealer in secondhand clothes. Cf. pelliparius (to which the word is often assimilated, ? by infl. of ME fel = ‘hide’. 1287 invenit plegios ‥ de prosequendo felonice versus Nicholaum de S. feliper Gaol Del. 36/1 m. 21d.; 1313 de omnibus phelipariis quia dubbant et divertunt pannos faciendo falsitatem in opere Leet Norw. 55; 1317 Johannes Albon ~ius London’ recognoscit se debere Ricardo de Rothyng’ ~io de London’ xx li. Cl 135 m. 20d.; 1324 Ricardus de Rodyng, philipparius de London’ Cl 142 m. 23d.; 1375 P. de Stodeye est communis felliparius torkeynando veteres pannos in novam formam in decepcionem populi Leet Norw. 65; 1393 quod nullus pelliparius vel philipparius vendat veteres foruras aliter quam a vestimentis extrahuntur Pat 337 m. 2; processus phiperariorum de Cornhulle Cal. LBLond. E 156.

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