Etymograph

English

lambrequin

Lambrequin comes from Middle French lambequin, and goes back to Old Dutch lappakīn ‘little cloth’.

  1. Old Dutchc. 500–1150lappakīn‘little cloth’
  2. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500lepperkijn
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600lambequin
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentlambrequin
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1883same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Dutchc. 500–1150lappakīn‘little cloth’
  2. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500lepperkijn
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600lambequin
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentlambrequin
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1883same form

Earliest quotation: 1883, Mark Twain pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne C, Life on the Mississippi: “Lambrequins dependent from gaudy boxings of beaten tin, gilded.”

Every English word from Old Dutch lappakīn

Today it means

noun A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Dutch lappakīn / lambrequin

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