jan 1, 1472 - frese

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A rare verb, explained by one editor as whitening and bleaching leather,<i> </i>and by another as a currier’s word, used when a pelt is split and the layer of fat between the flesh and the grain removed. <i> c</i>.1425 <i>Item for a dakyr of leddyr fresyng and dightyng redy to the gyrdelar ... viijd,</i> York (SS120/65,257); 1472 <i>vj lb plumbi rubei, fresed leder, ij lb ocor</i>, York (SS35/77).

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