[crenel] (1121-25)
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[crenel] (1121-25)

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  FEW:  *crinare 2/ii,1341a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  crenel 9,244c TL: crenel 2,1027 DEAF:  crenede (crenel)  DMF:  créneau  TLF:  créneau  OED:  crenel n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
carnel,  cernel,  charnel,  chernel;  cornel;  creinel;  karnel;  kernal,  kerneal,  kernel,  kernelle;  kirnel,  kyrnel;  qernell,  quernel,  herneal  176.30; 
pl. carneaux,  carneus,  kerneaus,  kernerus,  kerneus,  kerneux  

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1mil.archit.crenel, open space between the cops of the battlement of a parapet: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  N’i out chernel ne aleur Ne bretache ne nule tur  1671
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Unches nule pluie [...] Ne vola plus espessement Que saietes e darz voloent [...]. Li Bretun les kernels guerpirent [...]  6285
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) La veissiez les Turs defendre E as kerneals e as archieres  9220
( MS: s.xiiiin )  propugnaculum: kernel gallice vel britasche defensio  i 378
( MS: s.xiii )  arctum: (C) creynel (var. (B: s.xiii) creinel )  i 227
( MS: s.xiii2 )  cancelli: (C) lé kerneus (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) carneus; (L: s.xiii/xiv) kernerus)  ii 70.69
( 1347-60 )  En .viij. charnels pur la dit cog  E101/25/32 m4
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  s'il ascoulte ascun revell, Il vait tantost sus au qernell, Savoir q'amonte ytiel clamour  11285
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1mil.archit.decor.crenellated, furnished with open spaces between the cops of the battlement of a parapet: 
( 1428-32 )  deux basses chandelers […] d’argent dorrés, overés chescun de six tourelles a carneaux  C19
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