spousaille
Middle English
Noun
spousaille
- spousal: marriage; nuptials; espousal
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in [The Canterbury Tales] (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 175, recto, lines 8 and 10:
- Boweth ẏoure nekke / vnder that bliſful yok / […] Which that men clepe / spouſaille / or wedlok /
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