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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1446-1603
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Armourer, Armourare, n. Also: armurer, armoureur, arm-, airmorer; armorar(e, armurar. [ME. armurer (Chaucer), armorere, AF. armurer, OF. armurier, -eur, etc.] An armourer.(a) 1327 Exchequer Rolls I. 62.
Compotum Stephani dicti armurer 1327 Ib. II. 132.
Henrico Armourer 1456 Hay I. 281/27.
A maister armoureur of Paris 1483 Edinb. B. Rec. 47.
Buclar makaris, armoreris 1595 Ib. 137.
Airmorer and maker of corsletts(b) 1446 Exchequer Rolls V. 223.
Per solucionem factam Thome Armourare 1495 Treasurer's Accounts I. 264.
To Laurence the armorare 1526 Reg. Privy S. I. 514/2.
That … William Smeithberde … be now maister armorar to us 15.. Clariodus ii. 708.
An armurar that was cuning 1603 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 224 b.
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