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umbrarius

umbrarius [LL = one who calls up the shade of a deceased person] 1 (of helmet) fitted with a shade or visor (v. et. umbratus). 1322 de iij bacinett’ de viser’, quorum unum umbrar’ [sic] MinAc 1145/21 m. 34. 2 (as sb. f.) l’Ombrière (district in Bordeaux, also w. ref. to the castle sited there). 1222 salva nobis ~a nostra quam volumus in manu nostra retinere Pat 354 (= RL I 196); 1254 tradidimus ‥ preposituram nostram ~e Burdegale RGasc I 303a; c1291 prepositus noster ~e Burdegale Ib. III 39b; 1312 licet ipsi major et jurati [Burdegale] quoscumque malefactores ‥ coram ipsis ‥ condempnatos preposito nostro umbrerie Burdeg’ presentare Ib. IV 614; 1405 prepositum humbrarie Burdegal' Pat 372 m. 5.

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