borel

Middle English

Noun

borel

Alternative form of burel
- 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:
  This is to seye, if I be gay, sire shrewe,
  I wol renne out, my borel for to shewe.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Adjective

borel

Alternative form of burel
- 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:
  But sires, by cause I am a burel man,
  At my my bigynnyng first I yow biseche,
  Have me excused of my rude speche.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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:
  Religioun hath take up al the corn
  Of tredyng, and we borel men been shrympes.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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