Where does heronsew come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

heronsew

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […]."
"Pages, with ready blade, were there, / The mighty meal to carve and share: / O'er capon, heron-shew, and crane, / And princely peacock's gilded train […]."

From Middle English heronsewe, from Old French haironcel, diminutive of heiron.

heronsews (plural) handsaw (alternative) hernshaw (alternative) herneshaw (alternative) heronshaw (alternative) heronshew (alternative)

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