Obs. 4–7; also 3 bancour, banquer(e, bankewere, bankqwer, banwher, 6 banckwarre, bankard, bynker. [a. AF. *banquer, *banker = ONF. bankier, banquier, bancquier, f. banc bench.] A covering, generally of tapestry, for a bench or chair.
1312. Chart. Finchall (1837), App. 4. Iiij banker.
1395. E. E. Wills (1882), 5. An Halle, with docere, costers and bankers.
c. 1410. Love, Bonavent. Mirr., xv. (Gibbs MS.), 38. On þe bare grounde, ffor þare hadde he neyther banker ne cuschyne.
c. 1420. Anturs Arth., xxxv. 2. With beddus brauderit o brode, and bankers y-dyȝte.
c. 1450. Holland, Houlat, xix. 9. Braid burdis and benkis, ourbeld vith bancouris of gold.
1483. Cath. Angl., 20. Bankqwer, Bankewere, bancarium, dorsorium.
c. 1485. E. E. Misc. (1855), 4. The dosers alle of camaca, The bankers alle of taffeta.
1502. Arnold, Chron. (1811), 244. The hangyng bankers and cussyons in my halle.
1534. Lincolnsh. Ch. Furn., 186. A olde bankard made of an olde carpett.
1541. Lanc. Wills (1857), I. 106. Ij fformes with ij bankers.
1574. Richmond. Wills (1853), 248. A hawlinge, a bynker of wannes, and ij fox skynnes.
1660. Act 12 Chas. II., iv. Sched., Bankers of Verdure, the dozen pieces, ivl.
