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
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Guthrie C Brown
4/2/2021 12:42:21 pm
The editor's name is rather Edward Francis Rimbault, and the name of the publication is 'Five Poetical (rather than Ancient Political) Tracts of the Sixteenth Century,' Percy Society no. 27. (1842)
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4/2/2021 02:01:04 pm
My source was here for Ancient Poetical Tracts... (I did make a boo-boo and put Political instead of Poetical.)
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