chevelment (c.1136-37)

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chevelment (c.1136-37)

  FEW:  caput 2/i,334a Gdf: GdfC: TL: chevaument 2,363 DEAF:  chief (chevelment)  DMF:  chevelment  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
chevalment,  chevaument  

adv.

1lawas an immediate vassal
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Modred donat Certiz sun feu, Il ne tint unkes chevelment  4317
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Pur les nobles baruns qu’il out [...] Fist Artur la Rounde Table [...]. Illuec seeient li vassal Tuit chevalment e tuit egal  9754
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Nuls qui tenist del rei sa terre chevaument  2431
( 1307-10 )  feurent meyntenours e gardeyns chevaument de le ley de la terre  286.5
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