wyre

plural wyres

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of wire.

   Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene.

   1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

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   A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, / That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; / And bare out like the bending of an hill, / At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; / That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, / Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres; […]

   c. 1592–1593 (date written), Thomas Nash[e], “The Choosing of Valentines”, in John S[tephen] Farmer, editor, The Choise of Valentines: Or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo […], London: Privately printed for subscribers only, published 1899, →OCLC, pages 10–11, lines 109–114

   Randle Holmes says, the ladies wore "false locks set on wyres, to make them stand at a distance from the head," and accompanies the information with the figure of a lady "with a pair of locks and curls which were in great fashion in 1670."

   1876, James Robinson Planché, A Cyclopædia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress, […], volume I (The Dictionary), London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 248

1. A river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood.
2. A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, which is named after the river.