gipser

See also: Gipser

English

Alternative forms

gipsire

Etymology

French gibecière (“a game pouch or game pocket”). Compare gibbier.

Noun

gipser (plural gipsers)

(historical) A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, 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:
  An anlas and a gipser al of silk
  Heng at his gerdul
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- 1710, Thomas Rymer, Foedera:
  A Gipser of Gold, Garnisshed with Rubies and Perle, Bought of the said Mathew

References

gipser in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Grieps, gripes

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