geoffrey chaucer in English

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(1340?-1400) medieval English poet, author of the "Canterbury Tales"

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1. The Canterbury Tales, frame story by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in 1387–1400

2. Yes, that Geoffrey Chaucer, in 1391, to his little Lewis, his 11-year-old son.

3. Annoyous (comparative more Annoyous, superlative most Annoyous) (obsolete) troublesome; annoying14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, Frederic J

4. “Men may the wise atrenne, and naught Atrede.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, quote from Troilus and Criseyde “For thus men seyth, "That on thenketh the beere, But al another thenketh his ledere.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, quote from Troilus and Criseyde

5. In English, Ballades were written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth-century, and revived by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne in the nineteenth-century

6. In “The Miller’s Tale,” part of his late 15th-century Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer describes a “youthful wife” as having a mouth as “sweet as Bragget or as mead.”

7. This list of Authors features the best writers ever, including, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Geoffrey Chaucer, Homer, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Herman Melleville, William Faulkner, and Edgar Allan Poe

8. Accentuation plays an important part in determining the forms of words. CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 6 (OF 7) -- INTRODUCTION, GLOSSARY, AND INDEXES GEOFFREY CHAUCER But it is necessary to add a few words as regards his system of Accentuation, elision, contraction, and other noteworthy points.

9. The French means—'Calendars are illumined, and other books are confirmed (or Authenticated), when thy name illumines them.' CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMS GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is the prophecy, as Authenticated by one or other, or both of these things, that gives encouragement to perform the service.

10. The Astrolabe and the Stars "Thyn Astrolabie hath a ring to putten on the thombe of thi right hond in taking the height of thinges." Thus begins a description of the Astrolabe in A Treatise on the Astrolabe, a medieval user's guide penned by an amateur astronomer by the name of Geoffrey Chaucer.

11. Brigge (plural Brigges) A bridge (structure that crosses river or a divide) c, 1375, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro CanteBrigge, There gooth a brook, and over that a Brigge At Trumpington not far from Cambridge, there goes a brook, and over that a bridge; A retractable bridge; a movable bridge.