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dressor, ~orium, ~erium, ~ura [OF dressoir] , dresser: a table for ‘dressing’ or serving food; b room for the same; cf. directorium 1a. a 1289 in j ~or’ et j penticia faciendis ante hostium aule versus coquinam et ante hostium lardar’ Ac. Swinfield 34 (cf. ib. 124: 1290 in ‥ bordis ad ~er’); 1297 magistro [carpentario] emendanti ~orium constabularii Ac. Cornw I 133; 1307 mandavimus per vos provideri ‥bordes pro drestrariis [sic] et aliis pro officio ‥ J. [scutellarii] necessariis Cl 125 m. 12; 1309 in tabulis, trestellis, †~oris faciendis, xxxiiij s. (Ac.) Thorne 2011; 1360 in j cultello empto pro ~ore in coquina Sacr. Ely II 190; 1456 solut’ pro uno novo ~ore in le slaghows vij d. ob. DCCant. Cellarer/5.  b 1287 in uno muro inter capellam et ~uram per partes cooperiendam et emendandam (Suff) MinAc 991/21; 1289 in una verina reficienda vitri de stauro in ~io regis KR Ac 467/20 m. 4; 1304 in splent’ emptis ad pariet’ †drestur’ nov[e] ‥in brodnail emptis pro lacchet’ tachiand’ super dictam domum novam (Suff) MinAc 999/3; Ib. 991/27 (v. cubare 3b); 1306 ad domum dreszure et salsarie de novo faciendam Ib. 28; 1338 in iiij bordis emptis pro fenestris ~ure faciendis (MinAc) Surv. Durh. Hatf. 203; 1388 in vadiis j tegulatoris operantis super coopertura de novo cujusdam ~orii et unius gradus per ignem cremat’ KR Ac 473/2 m. 3; 1416 pro bono ‥ servicio quod dilectus servitor noster J. C. supervisor ad ~orium nobis impendit Pat 399 m. 36.

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