sclendre
Middle English
Alternative forms
- sclendere, sklendre, sklendere, slendre, slender
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French esclendre.
Adjective
sclendre
- thin, lean, gaunt
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 587-588:
- The Reve was a sclendre colerik man,
His berd was shave as ny as ever he can.- The Reeve was a slender choleric man,
His beard was shaved as close as ever he can.
- The Reeve was a slender choleric man,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 3147-3148:
- ‘This maketh that our heires been so sclendre
And feble, that they may nat wel engendre.’- ‘This makes our heirs to be so scrawny
And feeble that they can not well beget children.’
- ‘This makes our heirs to be so scrawny
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 587-588:
References
- “sclendre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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