escripe (c.1170)
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escripe (c.1170)

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  FEW:  *skirpja 17,121b Gdf:  escharpe 3,373b GdfC:  escherpe 9,514b TL: escharpe 3,863 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  écharpe  TLF:  écharpe  OED:  scrip n. 1  MED:  scrip(pe n.  DMLBS: ∅
escrippe;  escrepe,  escreppe,  eschreppe;  escherpe,  escrupe  

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1scrip, wallet, small bag (often used by pilgrims): 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Escreppe ot e burdun e un chapeau feutrin  3683
( MS: s.xiii1 )  chalça les sollers a liens a ses piez, E l'escrupe a sun col pendue cum passagers [...] Quant il fu ascemez ben resembla palmer  1637
( MS: c.1250 )  pera: escrippe  i 424
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  deners ne averoyent ne muneye; De escrepe ne eussent cure  849
mettre la suriz en sun (etc.) escripe
1 prov. to be miserly, close-fisted: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  molt soi tient segur e sein Qui met [...] en s’escherpe la souriz [...] souriz en bourse est avarice qui plus nuist que nul autre vice  8797
scripe  sharpe 
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