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piepowdern. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pepoudrous. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pepoudrous, pié poudrous (adjective) dusty-footed, (noun) wayfarer (1214; compare Middle French (Poitou) pyé pouldreux travelling merchant, French †pied poudreux person unable to pay (1672), also Middle French, French †avoir les pieds poudreux to leave without paying (1564)) < pié foot (see pied-à-terre n.) + poudrus dusty ( < poudre powder n.1 + -ous , -eux -ous suffix). Compare post-classical Latin pede-pulverosus wayfarer, itinerant merchant (a1500 in a Scottish source; also pede pulvericatus , pes pulverizatus , 14th cent. in English sources), lit. dusty of foot, dusty-footed ( < classical Latin pede , ablative of pēs foot (see -ped comb. form) + post-classical Latin pulverosus pulverous adj.). Compare dustyfoot n.With Court of Piepowders n. at sense 1 compare post-classical Latin curia pedis pulverizati , curia pedis pulveris (mid 15th cent. in English sources). Some of the α. forms occur in positions which are syntactically plural (e.g. in quots. c1436 at sense 1, a1500 at sense 1), and others in positions which are syntactically singular. It is possible (as assumed here) that they show a group of forms unchanged in the singular and plural, with an ending which ultimately reflects that of the Anglo-Norman adjective. The β. forms apparently arose through the (originally adjectival) ending -ous of the Anglo-Norman word being reinterpreted (either in Anglo-Norman or in Middle English) as the ending of a plural noun. It is uncertain whether the following earlier examples are to be interpreted as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1361 in H. Hall Sel. Cases conc. Law Merchant (1930) II. 104 Habere cogniciones placitorum de Pypoudre.1376 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 7 [The king's court of] pipoudres.1397 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 7 [His court of Westminster called] pepoudres. The following examples probably show the Anglo-Norman adjective, rather than a borrowing into English (quot. 1419 could also be interpreted as showing the noun):1228 in Middle Eng. Dict. at Pepoudre Una Curia que vocatur pepouderous.a1300–1400 (a1268) H. Bracton De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (1942) IV. 63 Propter personas qui celerem habere debent iustitiam, sicut sunt mercatores quibus exhibetur iustitia pepoudrus [v.rr. perpoudus, piepoudrus, peepoudrus, pepudrus].1419 in H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis (1859) I. 67 Terminare querelas transeuntium per villam qui moram non poterunt facere, qui dicuntur pepoudrous. Now historical. society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > summary court at fairs or markets c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss (1873) II. 23 The plees be twixe straunge folk that men clepeth pypoudrus [Fr. pepoudrous], shuldene ben pleted from day to day. 1477 VI. 187/1 To iche of the same Feyres is of right perteynyng a Court of Pepowders. a1500 (1844) I. App. v. 362/2 Burges or merchandis or pipouderous [L. Burgenses qui sunt mercatores et pedepuluerosi]. ?1530 vii. f. xiiiiv To euery fayre and market is incydent..a courte of Pypowders. 1609 J. Skene tr. Burrow Lawes in 136 Ane stranger merchand..vaigand fra ane place to ane other, quha therefore is called pied-puldreux, or dustifute. 1671 F. Philipps 180 The Steward of the Sheriffs Turn, or a Leet, or of a Court of Piepowder. 1750 C. Smith ii. iii. 205 Power to hold a court of pie-powder. 1768 W. Blackstone III. iv. 32 The lowest, and at the same time the most expeditious, court of justice known to the law of England is the court of piepoudre, curia pedis pulverizati. 1825 W. Scott Let. 31 July in (1935) VIII. 143 There is nothing around us..‘barring the high roads’ which make those who tread on them the most complete pie-poudreux ever seen that is if the old definition of pie-poudres be authentic. 1881 Newcastle Proclam. of Fair in Oct. 180/2 Notice is Hereby Further Given, That a Court of Piepowder will be holden during the time of this Fair, that is to say, one in the forenoon, another in the afternoon. 1914 24 Feb. 11/3 The Piepowder (or pieds poudrés, the itinerant of the ‘dusty footed’ court of law). 1999 (Nexis) 10 Apr. 15 On the corner is Tolsey House, which once held the Court of Piepowder. society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > summary court at fairs or markets c1475 (c1399) (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 319 To ben of conceill for causis þat in þe court hangid, And pledid pipoudris alle manere pleyntis. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 18 in II I'll talke with you anone; and take you downe too, afore Iustice Ouerdoo, he is the man must charme you, Ile ha' you i' the Piepouldres. 1664 S. Butler ii. ii. 89 To..Have it's proceedings disallow'd, or Allow'd, at fancy of Py-powder. 1712 J. Arbuthnot iv. ii. 12 Dost think, that John Bull will be tried by Piepowders? 1832 J. P. Kennedy I. xix. 191 Jurors, magistrates, witnesses, attorneys of the circuit, and all the throng of a country side interested in this piepowder justice. 1996 W. J. Novak iii. 96 Special courts known as piepowders administered market justice. Compounds society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > summary court at fairs or markets 1574 in (1885) App. v. 335 That the citie, by auncient usage have a Pipoulder Courte, commonly called the Courte of Delyverannce, for thexpedition of strangers. 1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 19 in His Pypouder Court is his onely terror. 1739 F. Blomefield II. 124 Steward of the Piepowder Courts belonging to these Fairs. 1887 2 69 They..were subject at fair time to separate tribunals, such as the pie-powder courts. 1998 D. K. Cameron ii. 15 (caption) In an upstairs room of Smithfield's Hand and Shears Inn, complainant and defendant argue their respective cases before Bartholomew Fair's piepowder court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.c1436 |
