chaucee (s.xii3/4)
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chaucee (s.xii3/4)

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[ FEW: 2/i,108b calx; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,27b chalciee; TL: 2,322 chauciee; DEAF:  chauz 1; DMF:  chaussée; TLF:  chaussée; OED:  causway n.; MED:  cauce(e n.; DMLBS: 242a calceta 1 ]
chaucé,  chaucié;  chacee,  chalcee,  chausé,  chausee;  calcee,  caucé;  causee,  causei, 
pl. causeis,  chauncez  

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1causeway, highway, road: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Depecent les chaucees, la veie est estopee  6217
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Lors l’unt pris e trahit par la rue e chaucee  531
( 1314-15 )  les dites pountes & chauncez sont si deffetez & brusez que nul home ne pet bonement passer  i 308
( 1406 )  diverses chimyns, pontes et caucés sont defectives  iii 598
2geog.dam, embankment: 
( 1332; MS: s.xivex )  (the waters of the Nile rise) grauns chaucez pur retenir l’ewe qe ne par (l. poet?) escoler de la cressaunce  318
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