Forms: 5 fomerel(l, fumrell, 5–6 fymrel(le, fumerill, 6 fymerelle, fomeril, fum(m)erel(l, 5– femerell. [ad. OF. fumeraille altered form of fumerole = It. fumaruolo:—L. fūmāriolum, dim. of fūmārium, f. fūmus smoke.]

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  ‘A lantern, louvre, or covering placed on the roof of a kitchen, hall, etc. for the purpose of ventilation or the escape of smoke’ (Weale, 1849).

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 169/2. Fomerel of an halle, fumarium. Ibid., 182/2. Fumrell of an hows, fumarium.

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1446.  Churchw. Acc. Yatton (Som. Rec. Soc.), 84. It. payd to Wylyam Stonhowse for settyng in of to [two] femerell in the stepyl … xd.

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1500.  Ortus Voc., P viij. Fumerale, a fumerill.

5

1511.  Nottingham Rec., III. 335. Ye fymerelle of yt chymney.

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16[?].  Jrnl. Bk. Expences, in Gutch, Coll. Cur. (1781), I. 204. Spent about the Femerell of the New Kitchin, and sundry gutters pertaining to the same XVIIIs VIIId.

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1885.  Law, Hampton Court, I. xiii. 174. The inside of the femerell was as richly decorated as the rest of the roof.

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