Early English Meals and Manners

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Fr. flateur, a flatterer, glozer, fawner, soother, foister, smoother; a claw-backe, sycophant, pickthanke. Cot.

Gloves to be taken off on entering the hall, [177/16].

Gloves, perfumed, [132/8-9].

Cp. in the account of Sir John Nevile, of Chete, in The Forme of Cury, p. 171, “for a pair of perfumed Gloves, 3s. 4d.; for a pair of other Gloves, 4d.”

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, [79/1177]; [82/1230]; [p. lxxxii].

Glowtynge, [18/281], looking sulky, staring. Halliwell.

Sw. glutta; Norse, glytta, gletta, look out of the corner of the eye. Wedgwood.

Gnastynge, [20/301, note ⁵].

Gnaw bones, don’t, [232/457].

Goatskin gloves, [132/9].