DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 3. one who is an object of love; a beloved person; a sweetheart; a mistress (obsolete) 4. a beloved or precious thing; anything valuable or highly prized; a treasure (obsolete) also DREURY, DREWERY, DREWRE, DREWRIE, DRIWERIE, DROURY, DROUWERY, DROWRIE, DROWRY, DRUERIE, DRURIE, DRURY, DRUWERY, DRWRY, DRYWERY, DRYWORIE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Pronunciation of DRURY from Old French druerie, droerie, druirie love, friendship (= Italian druderia, medieval Latin drudaria Du Cange), from dru, drut, friend a 1225 - (definitions 1 & 2) Ancren Riwle; see below From: The Ancren Riwle: A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life Edited and Translated from a Semi-Saxon MS. of the Thirteen Century By James Morton Printed for the Camden Society, 1853 P. 330 (for definition 1)
From: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The Miscellaneous Pieces Volume III. 1782 The Rime of Sire Thopas P. 125
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