† asseour Obs.
[OF. ‘Asseour, en parlant du service de la table, qui fait asseoir,’ Godefroy; f. asseoir to seat, set.]
An officer who superintended the laying of the king's table for dinner. Cf. assayer 3 and assewer.
| [c 1315 Househ. Ord. Ed. II, transl. 1601 (1876) §§49–51 The asseour of the kinges table.] 1448 in Hearne R. Glouc. 462 Sir William Martelle, the kynge's asseore, take eke was ther. |