Andrew Gibbs wrote:
Thank you Dennis - and Joseph - the 1295 date tallies with Janin Le Lutour's beginning service as a minstrel to the Prince of Wales - presumably it's in this list of musicians employed in the year 1295 that the word 'lute' appears. but the OED doesn't know about it?..
Remember how long ago the OED was compiled. The 1295 information was probably not available then.
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