argoile
Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman argoil, from Latin argilla (“clay”).
Noun
argoile
- potter's clay
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, 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, folio lxiv, verso:
- Cley made w[ith] horse dũge, mans heere, & oyle
Of tartre alim, glas, berme, worte, & argoile- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “argoile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.