Obs. [a. OF. jangleresse fem. of jangleor: see prec. and -ESS.] A female jangler.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Merch. T., 1062. For sithen he seyde that we been Iangleresses … I shal nat spare for no curteisye To speke hym harm þat wolde vs vileynye. Ibid., Melib., ¶ 119. Thise wordes been vnderstonde of wommen þat been Iangleresses and wikked.
c. 1439. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. lxxvii. (1869), 104. Why hast thou leeued the counseil of thilke berkinge lyere Oiseuce the jangeleresse?
