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‖ cuir-bouilli|kwir bu(l)jɪ|
Forms: 4–5 quir-, quyr- boilly, -boily, -boyly, -boile, -boyl(l)e, quere- boly, qwyrbolle, coerbuille, -boyle, 6 Sc. cur-, corbulȝe.
[F., lit. ‘boiled leather.’]
Leather boiled or soaked in hot water, and, when soft, moulded or pressed into any required form; on becoming dry and hard it retains the form given to it, and offers considerable resistance to cuts, blows, etc.
The word was in common English use from 14th to 16th c., after which it is not found till modern times, when it appears as borrowed from modern French.
1375Barbour Bruce xii. 22 On his basnet hye he bar Ane hat off qwyrbolle. c1386Chaucer Sir Thopas 164 Hise Iambeux were of quyrboilly [v.r. quereboly]. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvi. 123 Þai hafe platez made of coerbuille. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxx. (1483) 80 A feyned hede formed of playstred clothe other of coerboyle. 1513Douglas æneis v. vii. 77 Thair harnes..thaim semyt for to be Of curbulȝe corvyne sevin gret oxin hydis. 1880C. G. Leland Minor Arts i. 1 Solid or pressed work, known as cuir bouilli, in which leather..after having been boiled and macerated, or rendered perfectly soft, is moulded, stamped, or otherwise worked into form. |