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escorce (s.xii/xiii)

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[ FEW: 11,328a scortea; Gdf: 3,423c escorce; GdfC: 9,518c escorce; TL: 3,964 escorce; DEAF: ∅; DMF: écorce; TLF: écorce; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]

escorche, escors, escorse, escorze; eschorce, eschorche; ecorche; acorse, escorge ii 334, etcorche (l. eçcorce) 126.431

s.1(dry) bark (of tree) ♦ (living) bark, sprout ♦ outside, surface ♦ skin, peel ♦ shell (of nut) ♦ chaff (of wheat) 2bark used as a lamp-wick ♦ lamp 3a trifling amount

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1bot.trees(dry) bark (of tree):

( s.xiii^ex; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) La braunche quant ele enmarcist [...] gete sa escorce 123.15

( MS: s.xiv ) codicibus: escorchis ii 58

( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) liber: (D) escorce ii 54, 55

♦(living) bark, sprout:

( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) (Crusaders who had driven their lances into the ground) l’endemeyn les troverunt pleynes d’escorces e fluries 269

♦outside, surface:

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^m ) Le pomme de cedre si est de tiel nature qe pres de l’escors par dehors est assez douz a goster 109

♦skin, peel:

( c.1240; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) [P]ernez [...] les escorces de pommes gernettes [...] i 58

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) Adonc est li figeer pelez e le escorce est tote ostee 235.21

( MS: c.1325 ) Pernez le fruit […] e ostez l’ecorche que est dehors e pernés le fruit dedeins 126.431

♦shell (of nut):

( s.xiii¹; MS: s.xiii^m ) la noiz ki ad aspre e dure l’escorce defors [...] i 10

( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii² ) ele prist [...] l’escorce de nugauges 228-9

( MS: s.xiv¹ ) Pernez en esté les nugaces […] od tutes les escorches 13

♦chaff (of wheat):

( MS: c.1300 ) Petala: cortices tritici idem, g[allice] les escors de furment 114.214

2bark used as a lamp-wick:

( MS: s.xiii ) scincenduli cincenduli vel scicendeli : (A) escorces ii 50

♦lamp:

( MS: s.xii/xiii ) lucubre: (O) escorces, keus(var. (D: xiii/xiv) kexis, eschors; (T: xii/xiii) cresils) ii 50

3a trifling amount:

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) N’out en la terre duze homes si forz Qui vers li feissent une force La vaillance d’une petite ecorce 8058

mene escorce

1inner layer of bark:

( s.xiii^2/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) E la meine escorce de su 1080

l’escorce d’une breeche

1fig.(as object of little worth):

( 1312; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Mordauncestre e fresche force Ne vouchent sauf en moy l’escorce De une breke 487

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