Etymology

custrel

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Today it means: A knight's attendant or man-at-arms; a knave. Full definition →

Old French coustillier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromcoustillier“soldier armed with a <i class="Latn mention" lang="fro">coustille</i> (“double-edged sword”)”
  2. English todaycustrel

From Old French coustillier (“soldier armed with a coustille (“double-edged sword”)”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchcoustillier all →

coistril

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.