waget
See also: wäget
Middle English
Noun
waget
- cloth or clothes of a light blue color
- waget:
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, 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:
- Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light waget — ful faire and thikke ben the poyntes set.
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Descendants
- English: watchet
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