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FEW: lôpen *16,480b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: aloper DMF: aloper TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: alopare 69b

alloper, alaper 31

v.a.1to steal, run off with 2to abduct (a person) 3to entice (a person) from one employment to another
v.n.1to run away ♦ to elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover
v.refl.1to elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover
inf._as_s.1 elopement of a married woman
p.p._as_s.1eloper, woman who has run away from her husband with a lover

v.a.

1to steal, run off with:

( MS: s.xiv^1/3 ) La pie seit muscer Kant ke peut aloper En un privé lu 224.68

2lawto abduct (a person):

( 1278 ) come Johanne de B., par F. de S. […] feust allopee i 1

( s.xiii^ex; MS: s.xiv^1/3 ) ceux qi robbent […] ou allopent noneins 28

3occupationto entice (a person) from one employment to another:

( 1370 ) Item qe nul ne fortreisast ne alopast autri apprentiz, sergant ne lowys qe del mester fust 128

v.n.

1to run away:

( 1312; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Ma bele file Douce Pieté Hors de tere est alopé; Ne sai ou est 668

♦lawto elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover:

( 1337 ) En bref de dower pledé fut q’il (=ele) alopa de soun baroun en tiel ville en tiel counté, nient recounseil (l. recounseilé) en la vie soun baroun 11-12 Ed III 287

v.refl.

1lawto elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover:

( 1309 ) el se alopa de son baroun et demorra ové son avouter Ed II ii 145

inf._as_s.

1law elopement of a married woman:

( 1345 ) Dowere, ou aloper fuit pledé en barre saunz estre recounseillé 19 Ed III 139

p.p._as_s.

1laweloper, woman who has run away from her husband with a lover:

( MS: s.xiv^1/3 ) Mes pur aquere le quer de cele alopé, Par sey vout dereygnyr sun dreit en li clamé 507 (VI)

alopement alopour esloper

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