oversloppe
Middle English
Etymology
See overslop.
Noun
oversloppe
- A loose outer garment, a slop; cassock.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Skeat, Walter W. (editor), "The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue", in The Canterbury Tales, reprinted 1900 in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume IV, line 80.
- His oversloppe nis nat worth a myte
- His overgarment is not worth a cent
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Skeat, Walter W. (editor), "The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue", in The Canterbury Tales, reprinted 1900 in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume IV, line 80.
Descendants
- → English: overslop
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