escharseté (s.xii3/4)
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escharseté (s.xii3/4)

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  FEW:  *excarpsus 3,270b Gdf:  escharseté 3,376a GdfC: ∅ TL: escharseté 3,868 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  escharseté  TLF: ∅ OED:  scarcity n.  MED:  scarsete n.  DMLBS: ∅
escharceté;  escarceté,  escarcetee;  escarsetee,  escaceté  iv 123  

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1scarcity, shortage: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Escharsetez i ad de l’ewe e de bestes plentez  7033
( MS: s.xiii )  frugalitas: escarceté  ii 118
( 1402 )  la grande escarsetee qy ad au present [...] des mayles et ferlynges d’argent  ii 136 x
♦insufficiency, inadequacy: 
( 1323-25 )  de l’escharseté de seen qe vous me surmettez, n’ai poair ne matire de le desdire  154
2meanness, stinginess: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  lu leit donot [...] Largement, sanz escharseté  1644
3(narrow) compass, confines: 
( MS: s.xivm )  Les douze prophetes (=of the Old Testament) constreintz en les escarsetees de une volume  3rb
eschars  escharsé  escharsement#1  escharsement#2  scarseté 
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