mistihead

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

mistihead

  1. (nonce word) mistiness
    • 14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, A Goodly Ballad of Chaucer; republished as David Laing Purves, compiler, The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems, 1870:
      And Phoebus your father, with his streames red, / Adorns the morrow, consuming the sort / Of misty cloudes, that would overlade / True humble heartes with their mistihead.

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