Meanings
alternative point-devise
- historicaluncountableA form of lace worked with devices.
- obsoleteuncountableAnything uncommonly precise and exact.
You are rather point-device in your accouterments, as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], lines 389-91
Origin
- Anglo-Normanen poynt devis
- Middle Englishpoynt devise
- Englishpoint-device
From Middle English poynt devise, from the Old French phrase *a point devise, with the participle taken as a noun; compare Old French a devis and Anglo-Norman en poynt devis.
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