weyveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

weyve (plural weyves)

1. Obsolete form of waive (“female outlaw”).
   • 1958, T.H. White, The Once and Future King, page 107:

     "She was a true Weyve - except for her long hair, which most of the female outlaws in those days used to clip."

   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 3, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book IV (The Candle in the Wind):

     His mate would be marching sturdily beside him, also with a price on her head—her hair shaven off before she took to the woods, and known as a weyve.

名詞

weyve

1. alternative form of weif

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動詞

weyve

1. alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
   • c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.

     "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"

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動詞

weyve

1. alternative form of weyven (“to wave”)