ancille
French
Further reading
- “ancille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French ancele, ancelle, from Latin ancilla.
Noun
ancille (plural ancilles)
- maidservant; handmaid
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)
- Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesse!
- From his ancille he made the maistresse
- Of hevene and erthe, oure bille up for to beede.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)
References
- ancille in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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