1chessgamesalphin, elephant, chess-piece that can jump two square diagonally (similar to the modern bishop piece):
(
s.xiii;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Mes les alfins ensemble treyount E altre foyth eschec diunt
30.174
(
s.xiii;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
E fra le rei aler […] Entre le poun e le neir alfin
11.101
(
MS: s.xiiim
)
Il me semble del munde cum de l'escheker U sunt reis e aufyns, roks e chevalers
9
♦
fig.less significant chess-piece, minor character:
(
1174-75;
MS: s.xiiex
)
(Robert de Vaus) Ne volsist en l’eschekier devenir un alfin
590
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alfin (1174-75)