Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
anlace .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
anlace .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A medieval long
dagger .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The present writer possesses what he believes is an anelace, which was found among the ruins of a cottage on the Kirkstead Abbey estate some 25 years ago.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Thus it came about that the Gascon youths found themselves furnished with tunics of blue and silver, richly embroidered with their master's cognizances, and trimmed with costly fur, with long mantles of blue cloth fastened with golden clasps, with rich girdles, furnished with gipciere and anelace, and hose and long embroidered shoes, such as they began to see were the fashion of the day in England.
In the Days of Chivalry Evelyn Everett-Green 1894
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“anelace,” exactly resembling one described by Greene as part of
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Chaucer,” by H.J. Todd, F.S.A., 1810, shows the anelace hanging from a button on the breast of his surcoat.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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