also HOLER, HOLOR, HOLOURE, HOLYER, HOULLOURE, HOULOUR, HOULOURE, HULER, HULLAR, HULLOUR, HULLOWRE, HULLUR, HULOUR CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from Old French holier, holer, huler (later also houlleur), variant of horier, hourier, hurier, from Old High German huorari, huareri (Middle High German huorer, German hurer), whorer, fornicator; the first r became l in Old French by dissimilation, as in peregrinus, pelegrin, pilgrim c 1230 - Hali Meidenhad, An Alliterative Homily; see below From: Hali Meidenhad An Alliterative Homily of the Thirteenth Century Edited by Oswald Cockayne Published for the Early English Text Society, 1866 P. 31 From: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by Arthur Gilman,1880 The Canterbury Tales Tales of the Third Day, The Preamble of the Wife of Bath's Tale P. 429
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