Note 493 — Chapter VI · ‘Nicknames.’

‘Plunket’ was in early use as a perversion of ‘blanket.’ Thus a statute of Richard III. relating to this stuff calls it ‘plonket.’ The form in the Prompt. Parv. is ‘plunket;’ and Mr. Way, commenting upon it, quotes a line from the Awntyrs of Arthure—

‘Hir belte was of plonkete, with birdis fulle baulde.’