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Begina, ~us [OF beguine] 1 Beguine, member of lay sisterhood, later also brotherhood (cf. Begardus). s1243 quidam in Alemannia sub numerosa multitudine, mulieres precipue, habitum et mores religiosorum sibi assumentes, Beguinos sive Beguinas sese fecerunt appellari, ratione nominis incognita et auctore penitus ignoto M. Par. Min. II 476 (cf. Flor. Hist. II 267: Biguinas); s1250 mulierum continentium, que se Beguinas volunt appellari, multitudo Id. Maj. V 194; dixit quod ~e sunt perfectissime ‥ religionis, quia vivunt propriis laboribus et non onerant exactionibus mundum Eccleston Adv. Min. 124; 1313 magistre et xxxvj sororibus de ordine ~arum ejusdem ville [Montreuil] (KR Ac 375/8) RGasc IV p. xiv; 1332 ~e de Malyns j equum carectarium (KR Ac 386/7) Arch. LXXVII 140; status mulierum que Beguyne vocantur reprobatur J. Burgh PO V 20. 2 (piece of) a sort of (? striped) cloth (? cf. Fr. béguin, sort of bonnet). 1310 de bonis ‥ mercatoris de Dikemuth’ quatuor pannos ~os stragulatos ad lx s. appreciatos Cl 128 m. 25; 1325 pro una ~a [n. marg.: pannus] (KRCustAc. 93/22) EEC 378; 1329 panni: ‥ onerat se de iij ~is de radiato [etc.], de quibus in dorsario pro aula regis iij ~as ExchScot 255 (cf. ib. 173: per empcionem xix ~orum); 1337 in vj ulnis de begyno radiato pro roba ‥ xij s. Ac. Durh. 534; 1349 j pecia dim’ begyna sindon[e] afforc[iata] (KR Ac 391/15) Arch. XXXI 65; 1373 in empcione trium ~arum sindonis ExchScot 440.

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