Old English Dictionary Entry

Miltestre

Part of speech: an; Related words: 19, 29. Beclypte seó myltestre ðæt clǽne mǽden, Homl. Skt. 2, 169: 7, 178. Cómon tó ánre miltistran húse

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1 miltestre

f. A harlot :-- Myltestre meretrix vel scorta, Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 72: Gen. 38, 15. Ne lǽt ðú ðíne dohtor beón myltestre me prostituas filiam tuam, Leingressi sunt domum mulieris meretrices, Jos. 2, 1. Melt[r]estran hús lupanar, Hpt. Gl. 500, 61. Myltistryna hús, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 16; Som. 9, 45: Howl. Skt. 7, 148. Oððe ðú mid mǽdenum ðínne lác geoffrige, oððe ðú láðum myltestrum scealt beón geférlǽht, 7, 119. Mánfulle and myltystran publicani et meretrices, Mt. Kmbl. 21, 31, 32. miltestre

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ᛗᛁᛚᛏᛖᛋᛏᚱᛖ

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Works & Authors

Gen.: Genesis (OE poem)
Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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