Word of the Day: BAISIER

ETYMOLOGY
from Old French baisier (modern baiser) (to kiss)

EXAMPLE
“… Fynably Medea conueyed Iason vnto his chambre dore and their began there amorouse baisiers & kyssinges vnto the time that it was force that Medea must withdrawe her & thenne she recommanded Iason in the garde of the goddes and shette fast the dore. …”

From: The History of Jason
By Raoul Le Fevre
Translated by William Caxton, 1477

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