couche (s.xii2)
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couche (s.xii2)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,905b collocare; Gdf: 2,330a couche 2; GdfC: 9,122a colche; TL: 2,953 couche; DEAF:  couchier (couche); DMF:  couche; TLF:  couche; OED:  couch n.1; MED:  couche n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
cuche,  culche;  kuche,  couse  

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1domesticbed, couch: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  de terre levad e sur une culche s’asist  56
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  ens el lit les pez i met […] Cum cele ke mult entent De sun kuche apariller  192.113
( MS: s.xiii2 )  stratis: cuches  ii 5
( 1306 )  .j. cathedram et .j. couse pro iiij.d. ob.  i 370
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  il getterent hors es rues les malades et les mistrent en litz et en couches  (A) 363d
2layer: 
( s.xiv1/3 )  […] sucre desus, puis une couche de fars festicade  868.27
3merch.textilebale (of cloth or wool): 
( s.xivm )  ke nul de la cyté tel layne oveock' layne cullie de la seint Michel en avaunt ne face mettre ne medler en tuyson, en cuche ne en sacke  36
4store-room: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  abditorio: couche  ii 99
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