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worsteda

worsteda, ~um [ME worsted, after Worstead, Norf], worsetum, sort of woollen cloth (used for making clothing, furnishings, etc.), worsted. pro iij ulnis burnete de worthested' emptis ad caligas domini et sororis sue et Britonis Househ. Henry 412; 1350 in xj pannis de nigro worseto Ac. Durh. 173; 1398 ~am pro uno jupone ‥ tres ruellas sargie vel worsted' Cl 242 m. 10; 1422 nec wurseto duplicato aut dimidiato ‥ audeant ‥ vestiri Conc. III 415b; 1423 non liceat prelatis sive subditis uti panno nitido de worceto in cucullis aut in flocis duplicato Doc. Eng. Black Monks II 154; 1444 duo frontalia, unum de arras et aliud de vorseto nigro. item unum magnum frontale rubeum de vorseto Cart. Aberd. I 63; urbs ‥ Nortvicus ‥ in qua id genus panni quod vocatur ostadum duplex et simplex elaborate fit Major I 5.

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