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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F.

chiche

lean +

vache

cow.]

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

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Chichevache

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale
  "O noble wives, full of high prudence, / Let no humility your tongues nail: / Nor let no clerk have cause or diligence / To write of you a story of such marvail, / As of Griselda patient and kind, / Lest Chichevache you swallow in her entrail.

See also: Chichevache

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