1 janv. 1435 - bis

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A word used of fur in the Middle Ages. 1392 <i>unam longam togam de scarleto fodorato cum bys</i>, York (SS4/170); 1408 <i>unam togam de skarleto furratam cum bys</i>, Selby (SS116/2); 1419 <i>togis meis furratis cum bysshis</i>, Thirsk (SS116/26); 1435 <i>blodiam togam furratam cum byse</i>, Kneesall (SS30/51). It was the distinctively coloured back of a squirrel skin from the Baltic, captured in winter - ‘bis est le dos en yver desquirel’ but Veale noted that it was sometimes the whole skin (EMV224,228).

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