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bruere (1121-25)

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bruere (1121-25)

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FEW: brucus 1,557a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: bruiere 8,388b TL: bruiere 1,1171 DEAF: bruiere DMF: bruyère TLF: bruyer / bruyère OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: bruaria 1 219b

breuere, bruer, bruiere;

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1bot.heather:

( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv¹ ) iloec art Cume bruere en un asart 1158

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) Pernez le tendrun de bruiere 182

( MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) les esplez etc. [...] com en herbage et en bruere 71

♦geog.heath, moorland:

( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 ) De porcs e de berbiz voidereit la bruiere 6090

( c.1292; MS: c.1300 ) foreste ou bruereou mareys ou autre gastine i 382

( 1324-25 ) gasz [...] ceo est asavour, jaunz, bruere et autre pasture i 416

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