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lovarium

lovarium [AN lover, luver, OF lovier, cf. ME lovere] 1 (arch.) louver, smoke-hole (also w. ref. to shutter of louver). Cf. lodium. 1194 in operatione ‥ luvariorum et fenestrarum aule Pipe 80; 1201 pro uno wichetto et duobus luveriis ad gaiolam de Warew’, xiiij s. Ib. 232; 1209 in ‥ domibus castelli cooperiendis et reparandis, sclatis emptis ‥, cordis ad ~ium Pipe Wint. 68; eidem [palmario] pro ij lordis ad luvarium Ac. Build. Hen. III 154; 1233 ad scindulas ‥ emendas ad alas aule regis ibidem [Woodstock, Oxon] cooperiendas et loveras emendendas Liberate 10 m. 10; 1245 in cordis ad loverias magne aule Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/18 r. 2; in ij bordis ad ij loveria warderobe Ib. r. 5; 1250 desunt sex lovere in dictis sex talamis cum toto plumbicinio CalIMisc 91; 1275 pro iiij planchis ad loveria facienda KR Ac 467/6/2 m. 11; 1291 in ferramentis hostiorum et lovar’ ad idem [castrum], ix d. Ac. Cornw 486; 1297 magistro carpentario ‥ facienti j ~ium in longo stabulo pro pullanis Ib. 133; 1313 in corda empta ad lovare [? vernacular] ij d. ob. Comp. Swith. 393; 1335 quelibet camera habebit unum caminum cont’ v pedes infra mantellum ‥ et unum luvarium [ed. explains: ‘chimneyflue’] similiter (DCEbor.) Building in Eng. 430. 2 gutter. Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 287, 290 (v. imbricium); lavorium Ib. 295 (v. impluvium 1); Ib. 430 (Ib.) ; 1371 habet unam loveriam fetosam super aquam domini regis CourtR Winchester.

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