acconstrainments (fwd)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>If you look under accoutrement (surely the sense here) in the OED,
>you will find that this modern French word (now firmly in English)
>has variant spellings in older French which come very close to the
>form cited.

Not only that, but the very same Ferne passage is in the OED, with
"acconstrainments" replaced by "accoustrammentes"! That is, if I'm reading
the microscopic print correctly ....

-- Doug Wilson