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† tresance Obs.
Also 5 -auns, -aunce, 5–6 -awnce, -ens(e, 6 treasance.
[ad. med.L. tre-, trisantia, of uncertain meaning, but app. the covered passage round a cloister: see Du Cange, ed. 1887. Etymology obscure: perh. tres- = L. trans-.]
1. A passage in or through a house; a corridor.
1428in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 6 The seide parlore and the tresance lattizid, glazid, and selyd. [1429–30in Hope Windsor Castle (1913) 395 Pro factura ostii de la tresaunt in capella.] c1440Promp. Parv. 502/1 Tresawnce, in a howse.., transitus. c1475Crabhouse Reg. (1889) 58 The tresense fro the chawmbur dore to the halle dore. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 291 b, I mette hym in a tresawnce: where one of the bothe muste go backe. 1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. i. cxviii. 148 His other Gallerie and large Treasance. [1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. v. 233 (Roll of 35 Hen. III) Wainscote also the tresance [tresancia] between the hall and the aforesaid bed-chamber. ]
2. ? A window; ? a lattice or screen.
1510Stanbridge Vocab. (W. de W.) B j b, Transcenna, a tresens. [1525 est fenestra in summitate domus.] 1530Palsgr. 282/2 Tresens drawen over an estates chambre, ciel. |