1horsesanat.zool.crupper, hindquarters:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2
)
La croupe li torne de Arundel le quernu
3464
(
1214-16;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
prist le jeaunt […] e le reversa sour la crupe du chival
705
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
clunis: croup de cheval
ii 82.63
♦
anat.(of human) buttock:
(
MS: s.xiii
)
nates : (L) nages vel crupes
ii 125.3
2(piece of harness) crupper:
(
1414-15
)
1 nova cella pro valettis cum peytrell, croppe et freno
225
3geog.(of hill, montain) rounded top:
(
1266-1300;
MS: c.1300
)
Mais les vins qui croisent az pendans et sur la crupe de la montaigne plus vallent que plus sunt atemprez por ce qu’il ne sunt trop pres ne trop loing du solel
101.1054
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