chois (1121-25)
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chois (1121-25)

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  FEW:  kausjan 16,303a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  chois 9,83c TL: chois 2,409 DEAF:  choisir (chois)  DMF:  choix  TLF:  choix  OED:  choice n.  MED:  chois n.  DMLBS: ∅
choise;  cois;  schois  

s.

1choice, choosing: 
( 1372 )  a quele heure que vous serrez garniz […] d’estre a la choise et merche des dites cheisnes  i 116
2choice, option: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  Quant du verger avons le schois (M.E. chois), Or alons zouer (=play) au bois  (O) 337rb
a chois
1tastefully, exquisitely: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Le clos entur fu fet a chois  2383
a sun (etc.) chois
1at one's discretion, as one prefers: 
( 1341 )  Et ceux qi ont fait fyns, estoysent a lour fyns ou a la comune lei a lour chois  ii 133
♦to one’s liking: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Ben truverai seignur a chois  3046
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  il unt fet tut a lur chois  3152
de chois
1selected, chosen: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  mil hommes de chois  91-2
estre a, en chois de
1to have the choice between: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  ele est en chois de plusurs, Ki trestuz l’eiment par amurs  2337
( c.1185 )  De tres choses estes a chois  4054
mettre a, en chois (de)
1to give the choice (between): 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Pois fist [...] toz les Engleis assembler, A chois les mist quels leis tendreient E quels costumes il voldreient  ii 220.8999
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Quant Deus […] out feit hume, En chois le mist de mal e de bien  4131
prendre a, en chois
1 to take one's choice of, have as much as one likes of: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quant qu'il vuleit perneit a chois  3676
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Li charpenter coupent eu bois Mariem, k’il pernent en chois  4958
prendre en sun (etc.) chois
1to choose, select: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  El secle fui hermite en bois: Cele vie pris en mun cois  1542
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