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carsea

carsea, ~etum [ME < Kersey, Suff] , kersey, sort of coarse, narrow cloth; b (?) (adj. w. pannus). 1428 xij virgas de rubeo satyn figurato, ij integras ~eas albas (Cl) Foed. X 398b; 1517 j album ~etum ad fullandum, tondendum et escurandum Rec. Nott. III 138; 1547 [pannos laneos vocatos] chareseas CalPat II 97; 1554 chariseas CalPat I 226; 1555 pannos laneos vocatos carisceas Pat 904 m. 2.  b 1262 de illis qui ponunt lanam de Ispania in pannis †tersegis [l. cersegis] Gild Merch. II 4.

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