alderbest

English

Etymology

From alder- + best.

Adjective

alderbest (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Best of all.
    • Late 15th c. A Gest of Robyn Hode:
      That all the best archers of the north / Sholde come upon a day, / And he that shoteth alderbest / The game shall bere away.
    • 1522, John Skelton, Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?:
      That Lombard's nose mean I, / That standeth yet awry; / It was not healed alderbest, / It standeth somewhat on the west;
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