Robert Sherwood, Dictionaire Anglais et Français (1650)

Date

1650

Lexicographer

Robert Sherwood Note: 13/10/2005

Book title

Dictionaire Anglois & François, pour l'utilité de tous ceux, qui sont desireux de deux Langues. A Dictionary English and French; Compiled for the commodity of all such as are desirous of both the Languages

Publication place

London

Publisher

Susan Islip

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

French

Language

headwords: English
explanations: French
explanations: French

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: A weavers shittle. Navette.
A shittlecock. Pyrouët, galvol, volant, gruau, virolet, bavolet.
A shittle-headed fellow. Bernard.
A shittle-braind wench. Chambriere bavoletée. (aa1v)

Wing

S 3413

Catalog

Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. view record

Criticisms

Bately, Janet. "Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts." Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Eds. Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester. Costerus 133. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 13-30. view record