moveress

[ˈmoveress

A female mover.

Introduced by modern editors into the text of Chaucer Rom. Rose 149, where Thynne and the MS. have mynoresse. Although Méon's edition of the French original has moverresse, other texts have meneresse, which is doubtless the reading that Chaucer had before him. There is therefore no ground for altering Thynne's text.

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