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laughtre

laughtre

English

Noun

laughtre ‎(usually uncountable, plural laughtres)

Obsolete spelling of laughter
- 1892 CE, Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, George Bell and Sons; Volume III, Book IV, page #209:
  
  She was right swich to seen in hire visage,
  
  As is that wight that men on beere bynde ;
  
  Hire face, like of Paradis the ymage,
  
  Was al ychaunged in another kynde ;
  
  The pleye, the laughtre men was wonte to fynd
  
  On hire, and ek hire joyes everychone
  
  Ben fled, and thus lith now Cryseyde allone.