quercin (s.xiii2/3)
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quercin (s.xiii2/3)

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  FEW:  quercus *2/ii,1462b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  quercinus 2624a
 

According to the FEW ‘Lt. quercus hat in Gallien nich Fuss gefast’ (2/ii 1462b), whereas in English the adjective quercine a. appears only from the mid seventeenth century. This single Anglo-Norman attestation appears to be a Latinate hapax.

a.

feugere quercine
1bot.oak fern (gymnocarpium dryopteris): 
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiiim )  De la morele e de la racin De la feugere quercin  1533
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