cordele (s.xii1)
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cordele (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  chorda 2/i,646a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  cordele 9,199a TL: cordele 2,853 DEAF:  corde (cordele)  DMF:  cordelle  TLF:  cordelle  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  chordella 331b
 

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1 thin cord: 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 )  Si aveit estruis =stirrups de cordele  1556
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  […] Quant des cordeles flaels fist  750
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  li mires […] teinge le chef de cele cordele  i 84
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  une cordele Pur ceynture  874
♦ string, long line: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Il fist aturner un present De mil sachees de frument E mil cordeles de pessun  2340
2 bond: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ja peussiez veeir paisanz, e Flamens ki les lient, Mener en lur cordeles cum gent de paenie  1168
3 weapons mil. bowstring: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Si rien atuchet la cordele, Tost pot oir male novele  4405
4 kinship line, descent (of inheritance): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  si lur fist pursedeir en cordele le heredité (Latin: possedere eos fecit in funiculo hereditatem)  143.LXXVII.55
frere de cordele
1 eccl. monastic Franciscan: 
( MS: 1272-82 )  […] si tous nous rendisoums As freres de cordele  71
corde  cordel  cordeler#1  cordeler#2  cordellot  corder#1  corder#3  cordete  cordeus  cordon 
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