overlippe
Middle English
Noun
overlippe
- upper lip
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 133-135:
- Hir over lippe wyped she so clene,
That in hir coppe was no ferthing sene
Of grece, whan she dronken hadde hir draughte.- She wiped her upper lip so clean,
That in her cup there was seen no tiny bit
Of grease, when she had drunk her drink.
- She wiped her upper lip so clean,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 133-135:
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