tresor (c.1136-37)
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tresor (c.1136-37)

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treshor,  tresur,  tresour,  tresore,  tresoure,  tresure;  tressor,  trezur;  trosor,  triesur  140  

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1treasure-chest, strong-box: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xiiex )  tut l'or e l'argent que il pout truver al temple e en ses tresors, tut enveiad  209
2treasure-house: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ne mie murdrir en sun tresor Cofres pleines de argent u de or  1027
3(Royal) Treasury: 
( 1392-93 )  lez iij. li. de sa (= King's) Tresure  95
4eccl.archit.sacristy: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  fist trere Hors del trosor le seintuere  15.108
5occupationfinan.treasurer: 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Li tresor pur resbaudir Le quer le roi urent desir, K'en tel tressor ne se fie  936
6treasure: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Le reis C. ad tut saisiz E lur herneis e lur aveirs E lur tresors  1002
en tresor
1in safe keeping, in the archives: 
( 1258 )  nos enveons nos lettres overtes [...] en chescun cunté a demorer la en tresor  116
aver en tresor
1to have stored away: 
( 1174-75; MS: c.1200 )  Asez avez en tresor aver e manantie  391
( 1391 )  jeo ay ne or ne argent en tresour ne juells  i 160
mettre en tresor
1to save, store away: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xiiex )  quanque tes ancestres unt cunquis e mis en tresor jesque a cest jur  218
( 1279-80 )  E de ceo serra fet un estaundard [...] e mis en tresor  980
tresor trové
1lawtreasure trove (jewels etc. found buried and claimed by the Crown): 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Alienacion de tresor trové purra il avouer  114
( c.1356 )  de tresor trové et conselé  25
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