† Bord Alexander

Obs. Also 4–5 burd, boord(e, borde. A kind of striped silk: see ALEXANDER.

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1392. in Beck, Draper’s Dict., s.v. Alexander, In 1392 Richard Beardsall left as a legacy a piece of burd Alysaunder.

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1440. in Peacock, Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866), 184. Vj autere towells of lynen Clothe … the vth with a frountere of boorde Alisandre.

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1482. Marg. Paston, Will, in Lett., III. 286. The hole bedde of borde alisaundre.

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1503. Will of Gaynesford (Somerset Ho.). W^t celer & tester of borde alisaundre.

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