1narrowness, confinement:
(
1163-70;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
l’enfant [...] rien ne sot fors le secrei Del ventre sa mere u giseit, Dunt l’estresce uncore senteit
234
(
MS: s.xiii
)
angor: estresce
164
♦
confined space:
(
s.xii4/4;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
(J.C.) Pur mei jut en cele estresce
(=B.V.M.’s womb)
1447
2straitened circumstances:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
Icestes deus choses partienent a clostriers […] c’est a saver estresce
(var. (BN: s.xivin) estreitesce) e amertume
134.11
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