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sartorius

sartorius [CL sartor+-ius], of or concerned with sewing or mending clothes: a (w. sb. denoting place; Aula ~a, Cloth Hall, place in which buyers and sellers of cloth could transact business). b (as sb. f. or n.) place in which clothes are sewn or mended, tailor's workshop; storeroom for clothes; c (mon.). a s1299 prior et conventus ‥ susceperunt c marcas et concesserunt ei duas liberaciones, sc. monachi et garcionis, et infra sartariam cameram assignatam Ann. Worc. 544; venturos a Flandria oratores, captis jam circa nos in Aula ~a eorum hospitiis, prope diem expectamus André Hen. VII 122.  b ~ium, -ii, i. locus in quo vestes sarciuntur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 538; a sartryn, ~ium CathA.  c camerario decem denarios in sartario ad filum et saponem Cart. Rams. III 233; in ~io ministrabunt ‥ magister pelliciarius, magister sutorius, magister incisorius, procurator ~ii ‥ . unicuique ‥ necessaria procurabit, acus, cultellos, forfices Chr. Abingd. II 387; 1280 de communi sartria indumenta et calciature ‥ debite ministrentur Reg. Ebor. 132; si aliquis ‥ licenciam postulet exeundi, ut ad ~iam, aut balniatorium Cust. Cant. 84; c1400 a camera prioris usque ad sartariam Chr. Evesham 309; 1418 pro uno serviente in sartaria ‥ per septimanam iij d. Ac. Obed. Abingd. 83.

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