WORD OF THE DAY: NICEBECETUR

NICEBECETUR
 
NOUN
a fine, dainty, or fashionable girl or woman ...c1520 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1520 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...They thynke it is as great almes.
As to saye the seuen psalmes,
And dothe it for charyte.
To gete gownes and furs,
These nysebeceturs,
Of men sheweth theyr pyte,
Somtyme for theyr lust
Haue it they must,
Or seke wyll they be..."
From: The Boke of Mayd Emlyn
In - Ancient Poetical Tracts of the Sixteenth Century, 1842
Edited by Edward Francis Rimbault for the Percy Society