gipser

See also: Gipser

English

Alternative forms

• gipsire

Etymology

French gibecière (“a game pouch or game pocket”). Compare gibbier.

Noun

gipser (plural gipsers)

1. (historical) A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
   • 1710, Thomas Rymer, Foedera:

     A Gipser of Gold, Garnisshed with Rubies and Perle, Bought of the said Mathew

References

• “gipser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Grieps, gripes

Middle English

Noun

gipser

1. gipser
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     An anlas and a gipser al of silk
     Heng at his gerdul

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