† fiscellen.
Obsolete.
A little basket. The quot. from the Promptorium apparently shows misapprehension of the meaning of the word. Way's ed. reads ‘fyschelle of fyschew or festu’, and explains this as meaning ‘basket of osier’; but this is obviously incorrect.
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (1499) Fysshell, fysshewe or festu, festuca.]
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 55/1 She saw the lytyl crybbe or fiscelle.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xxxvii. f. xliiiv/1 He..made fyscellis wouen wyth Rede and Ionkes.
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