Frætwung

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - frætwung

According to the Old English Dictionary:

frætewung, e;

frætwung
f. An adorning, adornment, ornament; ornātus, ornāmentum :-- He micele swíðor lufode ðære heortan clǽnnysse ðonne ðæra stána frætwunge he much more loved cleanness of heart than the adornment of stones, Homl. Th. i. 508, 22. On ðisum getelde wǽron forneán unasecgendlíce frætwunga in this tabernacle were almost unspeakable ornaments, ii. 210, 11. DER. world-frætwung. frætwung
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