Obs. Forms: 4 blaunner, -ier, 5 blauner; also 5 blaundemere, blaunchmer. [app. blaun(n)er was the same as blaundemere, which in its turn suggests a Fr. *blanc de mer ‘sea white,’ though the application of the name seems to be lost.] A species of (? white) fur used to line hoods, etc.
c. 1330. Syr Degarré, 701 (Halliw.). He ware a cyrcote that was grene; With blaunchmer it was furred, I wene.
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 155. A mere mantile abof … With blyþe blaunner ful bryȝt, & his hod boþe.
1460. Lybeaus Disc., 117, in Ritson, Metr. Rom., II. 6. Sche was clodeth in Tars, Rownie and nodyng skars, Pelured wyth blauner. Ibid., 128, in Furniv., Percy Fol., II. 420 (Mätz.). Cladd all in greene and ffurred with blaundemere.
