1 gen 1642 anni - form

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A long seat without a back, a bench (OED). The OED notes that in this sense the word formerly had a distinctive pronunciation and that may be implicit in the early spellings: 1490 <i>quarells now late wer had … in especiall for knealynge of thare wyffes … at a fourem in the said Kirke</i>, Kirkburton (Morehouse62); 1507 <i>on cobbord wyth a boffit stoyll and a forom</i>, York (YRS39/189); 1567 <i>two buffett fowremes and fowre buffett stooles</i>, Fixby (YRS134/14); 1612 <i>Item one long table and one long furram</i>, Eccleshill (YRS134/67); 1642 <i>to have eyther a broad fourme whearon to sitte themselfes</i>, Elmswell (DW73).

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