Definitions
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- noun obsolete A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour.
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- noun Obsolete form of
summoner .
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Examples
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-- Tale of the Summoner (somnour, sompnour): a friar ill-received by a moribund; a coarse, popular story, a version of which is in "Til Ulespiegel."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The miller, the reeve, the somnour, the shipman, relate coarse stories, and their licentiousness somewhat embarrasses the good Chaucer, who excuses himself for it.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
sidheag commented on the word somnour
Som"nour\, n. A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. Obs. --Piers Plowman.
December 15, 2008