maistrie
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Noun
maistrie (uncountable)
Anagrams
Noun
maistrie
- a masterly operation; a feat
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, 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:
- I wol doon a maistrie 'er I go.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology
Noun
maistrie oblique singular, f (oblique plural maistries, nominative singular maistrie, nominative plural maistries)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (maistrie)
- mestrie on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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