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• Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
  ...ange of the work is large - [[Beowulf]] rubs shoulders with [[Ebonics]], [[Chaucer]] sits alongside [[Chomsky]], [[Latin]], and the [[World Wide Web]]. Substa
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• Signal
  ...ign{a}l(e, a [[Rome|Romanic]] formation on L. signum SIGN: -AL1 4. Used by Chaucer and Gower, but otherwise [[evidence]]d only from the end of the [https://en
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• Galaxy
  ...anguage]] in a [[poem]] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer Chaucer]. :::—Geoffrey Chaucer. The House of Fame, c. 1380.
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• Clarion
  ...ight%27s_Tale The Knight's Tale]'', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer Chaucer] writes, "Pypes, trompes, nakers, clariounes, that in bataille blowen blody
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• Darkness
  ...s jaws with which to devour [[love]]. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream: I, i)[7] Chaucer, a 14th century Middle [[English]] writer, wrote that knights must cast awa # Chaucer, Geoffrey (14th century). The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems. The Second
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• Middle Ages
  ...he poetry of [[Dante]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer Chaucer], the travels of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo Marco Polo], and
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• Gospel
  ...of Euangelium Eternum, siue Euangelium Spiritus Sancti. (See note in Skeat Chaucer (1894) I. 447.)
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• Pamphlet
  ...d and is mentioned or alluded to in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer Chaucer], Gower, and Skelton: see P. Bawcutt in Medium Ævum (1995) 64 264–72.
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• Wife
  :c. Wife of Bath, one of the pilgrims in [[Chaucer]]'s [[Canterbury Tales]]; used allusively (usu. attrib.), chiefly with refe
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• Circuitry
  ...owe..He cumpaside heuene in the circuyt [1388 cumpas] of his glorie. c1386 CHAUCER Knt.'s T. 1029 The circuit a myle was aboute Walled of stoon and dyched al
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• Rehearsal
  *c1386 CHAUCER Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 299 Forgat I to maken rehersaille Of watres corosif,
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• Goodness
  ...s of godenes [other MSS. bounte] boun To ysaac {ygh}af his benesoun. c1386 CHAUCER Man of Law's T. 853 Til cristes mooder..Hath shapen, thurgh hir endelees go ...men suld bolde {th}aim to be blith, And ilk man his godness to kith. c1386 CHAUCER Melib. {page}777 We preien yow and biseke yow..that it lyke vn-to youre gre
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• Novel
  ...rench, and famous today in English thanks to the translation by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]. ...ulminated - with the works of [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]], [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] and [[Miguel de Cervantes]] - in the original "
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• Disciple
  ...sente to Ihesu. 1393 GOWER Conf. III. 374 (MS. Harl. 3490) And grete well Chaucer, whan ye mete, As my disciple and my poete. 1756 NUGENT Gr. Tour France IV.
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...pBxqdYVFPGpYvQ2SM&hl=en Chaucer and Dissimilarity: Literary Comparisons in Chaucer].
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• English
  *ca. 1380 [[Chaucer]] writes the [[Canterbury tales]] in [[Middle English]]. the language shows
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• Languages and Literature
  ...accio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'' and [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', have comparable forms and would classify
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• Communion
  c1386 CHAUCER Pars. T. {page}238 Contricion..restoreth.. to the compaignye and communyon
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• Existence
  c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame I. 266 Allas what harme dothe Apparence Whan hit is fals in existen
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• Translation
  ...Roman de la Rose; and completed a translation of Boethius from the Latin. Chaucer founded an English poetic [[tradition]] on adaptations and translations fro
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