chaunterie

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
 * 2) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 509-510:
 * "enm"

- [...] And ran to London, un-to sëynt Poules, To seken him a chaunterie for soules, [...]


 * 1) A chantry chapel set up for the above endowment
 * 2)  The chanting which occurs during Mass.
 * 3) * c. 14th century, Gawain Poet, part I, stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 62-63:
 * "enm"

- [...] Fro þe kyng watʒ cummen with knyʒtes in to þe halle, Þe chauntre of þe chapel cheued to an ende; [...]