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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375
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Saumbu(e, n. [ME sambu (14th c.), saumbu(e (a1450), etc., OF sambue (c1175 in Larousse).] A saddle-cloth. — 1331 Exchequer Rolls I 389.
Onerat se de ij saumbues pro sororibus … regis 1331 Ib. 402.
Pro duabus saumbuys [20 l. 13 s. 4d.] Et pro vna cella [= sella] palfredi pro domino custode
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