| 释义 |
† duntibour Sc. Obs.
Also dont-, dount-, duntebor.
[Derivation uncertain.]
? A lady of the bed-chamber.
1538Lyndesay Supplic. agst. Syde Taillis 176 Quod Lindesay in contempt of the syde taillis, That duddrounis & duntibouris throu þe dubbis traillis. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. iv. (1644) 307 The old Duntebors, and others that had long served in the Court, and hoped to have no remission of sins, but by vertue of the Masse. Ibid. 363 Certain Duntiberis, and others of the French Menȝie. Ibid., Madame Baylie, Mistris to the Queens Dountibures (for maids that Court would not then well bear). |
