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Definition of 'reve'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (local official).
  • (Piers Plowman)
  • * 14thC', , ''Prologue to the '''Reves Tale'', 1915, ''The College Chaucer , page 94,
  • Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve ;