mariola

mariola, ~is, ~um [AN mariole < Mariola = little Mary] 1 image (of the Virgin Mary); b (spec. as statue). contigit et crucem, et ~am, et Johannem, et loculum cum camisia S æ dmundi ‥ sublata esse Brakelond f. 152; instrumenta ecclesie sunt hec: ‥ ~um [gl.: mariole], crusifixum et alie ‥ ymagines Neckam Ut. 119; 1220 iij pepla ad ~am cooperiendam linea Reg. S. Osm. I 291; quandam aliam orationem solebat dicere genibus flexis ante ~am de beata Virgine quam sponsam suam dicebat Edmund Or. pref. 586; 1300 quatuor ~e beate Marie cum tabernaculis de eburn’ et diversis imaginibus AcWardr 352.  b s1235 unam elegantissimam ~am, quam ‥ W. de C. ‥ opere sculpsit studiosissimo, ecclesie nostre presentavit Chr. Mon. S. Alb. I 286. 2 unmated female animal (in quot, goose). 1283 †marioli [l. mariole] (v. anserulus); 1307 auce: et de j anceri et iij ~ibus de remanentibus ‥ et remanent j ancer et iij ~es Doc. Bec 155; 1349 remanent vj auce, v ~e et j ancer Rec. Elton 342; 1351 remanent vij auce quarum v maroles Ib. 383. 3 (as adj) unmated female (of animal). 1247 de v aucis mariol’ et ansere exierunt ‥ xij aucule MinAc 740/7; 1258 remanent in curia iij auce ~e et iij anseres Ac. Wellingb. 3.