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wæscestre

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
wæscestre, an; f.
One who washes.
used of a man
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  • Iobinus wæs mín wæscestre

    (fullo),

      Gr. D. 191, 23 : 192.
of a woman
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  • Hé wæs lufigende his wæscestran

    (presbyteram)

    swá swá his ágne swuster . . . þá þá hine geseah seó his wæscestre,
      Gr. D. 276, 1-14.
Etymology
[Þis us doð to understonden þe forbisne of þe wasshestren quod melius patefacit exemplar lotricum, O. E. Hml. ii. 57, 22.]
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  • wæscestre, n.