Citations:fordwine

English citations of fordwine

• c. 1505, Sir Torrent of Portingale:

  […] for it encresseþ in grete reyne and fordwyneth in drye wedir […]

• 1993, Susan Kelz Sperling, Lost Words of Love, page 34:

  Now my BELLY-FRIEND has FORDWINED for good, and I'm a WIDOW-BEWITCHED, while you're still at your MURLIMEWS, “ helping" your readers.

Middle English citations of fordwine

• c. 1375, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), The Romaunt of the Rose

  Her face frounced and forpined And both hir hondes lorne fordwined So old she was, that she ne went A foote.