† huseau Obs.
[a. obs. F. houseau (Cotgr.) ‘a course drawer worne ouer a Stocking instead of a Boot’ (cf. OF. housel in Godef.), dim. of OF. (and F. dial.) house, heuse, husse boot.]
Some kind of boot or legging.
Husens in the first quot. is app. an error for huseus = huseaus, for which huseans in Cowell is again an error, copied by Minsheu and Phillips. But cf. Sc. hushion.
| 1464–5 Act 4 Edw. IV, c. 7 Qe nulle persone Cordewaner..face.. ascuns solers galoges ou husens oveque ascun pike ou polein qe passera la longeur..de deux poutz. Ibid., Ascuns solers husens ou galoges [Rolls Parlt. V. 566/2 Shoes, Galoges or Botes..Shoes, Botes or Galoges]. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Huseans, commeth of the French (houseaux) i. ocrea, a boote. It is vsed in the Statute, an. 4 Ed. 4. ca. 7. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Huseans (old Word), a kind of Boot or Spatterdash of course Cloth. 1720 Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. xii. 212/2 (tr. Act 1464–5) Any Shoes, Galoshes, or Huseaus. |