duçur (1113-19)

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duçur (1113-19)

[ FEW: 3,175a dulcis; Gdf: 2,759b douceur; GdfC: 9,403c dolçor; TL: 2,2049 douçor; DEAF: ; DMF:  douceur; TLF:  douceur; OED:  douceur n.; MED:  douceour n.; DMLBS: ]
duceour,  duceur,  duçor,  duçour;  duchur,  dusour,  dusur,  duzur;  dulceour,  dulceur,  dulçor,  dulçur,  dulzur;  douceour,  douceur,  douceure,  douçour,  doulceur,  dousceur,  dousur,  douszour,  douzour;  dolçor,  doulçor,  dousoure  313  

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1sweetness
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii1 )  une fleirur Ke tant esteit de grant duchur  1206
( MS: s.xivin )  duceour de mel  87.3
sound sweetness, pleasantness to the ear
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivm )  Cheverie [...] e chimbes Fasoient notes de grant douceour  30
( 1410-15; MS: c.1415-20 )  le douçour de soun (=nightingale’s) chançoun  418
2gentleness, kindness
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  cel (Castor and Pollux) furent portez, En esteiles muez, E ourent tel amur E itele dulçur Que quant li uns raiout, L'altre se rescunsout  1228
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  De la goie, de la duçur, tut en ublie sa dulur  1965
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  (when the prince has heard the message:) Ne senti ja puint d’ire en sei. Espris fud cum d’une chalur Ki turné l’out tut en duceur  1918
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Pur ses buntez e ses dusurs  2346
3softness, laxity
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Par le bon uignement Del chalt e de l’humur, La puldre prent dulçur  2242
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  la pulente karoigne proprement nus entice a douceures e a eeses e a molesces  269.30
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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