Talk:cupboard

RFV discussion: December 2020
Tagged by Schläsinger X yesterday, not listed:
 * “Wycliffe Bible and that other are Middle English”

Sense:
 * A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet.
 * c. 1380,, Of Antecrist and his Meynee; published as John Wycliffe; , Three Treatises by John Wycklyffe, D.D. I. Of the Church and Her Members. II. Of the Apostacy of the Church. III. Of Antichrist and His Meynee. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in the Library of , with Notes and a Glossary, by James Henthorn Todd, D.D., Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-Street, booksellers to the University, 1851, 505328367 , page cl:
 * Loke Cristis copborde / & hors; & pei ben ful unlichy; for he was at þe mete where six watur pottes weren / & he was þe worþiest in þat place.
 * c. 1400, the Alliterative Morte Arthure; published as James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Morte Arthure. The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral,, London: For private circulation only, 1947, 5347067 , page 18:
 * The kyngez cope-borde / was closed in silver, / In grete goblettez overgylte / glorious of hewe;

J3133 (talk) 09:13, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I moved the quotations to new entry and removed rfc-sense.  That leaves an rfv-sense on the definition.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 19:13, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I added a single citation proving that this Middle English form survived to Modern English. OED has several more if anybody needs three modern uses.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 18:40, 12 December 2020 (UTC)