† hoppesteren.

Etymology: Old English hoppystre , < hoppian to hop v.¹: see -ster suffix. The modern form would be hopster; compare Chaucer's tappestere, now tapster.

Obsolete.

A female dancer, a danceress. In the quot. from Chaucer apparently used attributively = ‘dancing’. ‘Schippes hoppesteres’ answers to navi bellatrici (= ‘warlike ships’) in Boccaccio's Teseide, which it is supposed that Chaucer misread as ballatrici (= dancers, dancing, plural feminine). Speght (followed by Bullokar and Cockeram) erroneously explained ‘hoppesteres’ as ‘pilots’. See Skeat, Chaucer V. 80.

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c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 484 He..ðæs mæran witegan deað þære lyðran hoppystran hire gliges to mede forgeaf.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1159 Yet saugh I brent. the shippes hoppesteres [Camb. MS. hospesterys].

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Hopesteres, pilots to guide a shippe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	hoppestere
释义	† hoppesteren. Etymology: Old English hoppystre , < hoppian to hop v.¹: see -ster suffix. The modern form would be hopster; compare Chaucer's tappestere, now tapster. Obsolete. A female dancer, a danceress. In the quot. from Chaucer apparently used attributively = ‘dancing’. ‘Schippes hoppesteres’ answers to navi bellatrici (= ‘warlike ships’) in Boccaccio's Teseide, which it is supposed that Chaucer misread as ballatrici (= dancers, dancing, plural feminine). Speght (followed by Bullokar and Cockeram) erroneously explained ‘hoppesteres’ as ‘pilots’. See Skeat, Chaucer V. 80. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun] > female hoppesterec1000 leaperessa1382 danceressa1425 Terpsichore1710 saltatress1784 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 484 He..ðæs mæran witegan deað þære lyðran hoppystran hire gliges to mede forgeaf. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1159 Yet saugh I brent. the shippes hoppesteres [Camb. MS. hospesterys]. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Hopesteres, pilots to guide a shippe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1000
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