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boton (s.xii3/4)

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boton (s.xii3/4)

botoun,  botun;  bottoun;  bouton,  boutoun;  butoun,  butun,  button,  buttun  
  FEW:  *botan 15/i,223b Gdf: GdfC:  boton 8,346a TL: boton 1,1095 DEAF:  boter (boton)  DMF:  bouton  TLF:  bouton  OED:  button n.  MED:  botoun n.  DMLBS:  boto 210b

s.

1button, knob, stud
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Le frein fu de fin or [...] Les resnes de seie, a gros botons dorré  116
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  un chapel De fresaus aturné mut bel, A or purtreit, a beaus butuns  2735
( MS: s.xiii2 )  bulla, nodulus: botun  i 160
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  bulle: (T) botons (var. (A: xiii) buttuns; (C: xiiiex) botouns; (D: xiii/xiv) botuns de or; (L: xiiiex) botun)  ii 51
pej.(as object of little worth)
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ja nen avrai de vus le vaillant d’un butun  2865
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  'Seigneurs, fait li Paen, kar me mustrez Charlun! Messager sui un rei qui nel aime un butun'  34
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  ne lur valt un butun Lur chastier ne lur sarmun  6349
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Sentence u absoluciun Ne preisent vailant un butun  561
2med.pathol.pile, haemorrhoid
( MS: c.1300 )  Contra bottouns exeuntes sive etiam currentes sanguine [...]  262.164
3bot.tip (of branch)
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  cime: (T) botuns de verges (var. (C: xiiiex) anglice crop; (A: xiii) butuns; (D: xiii/xiv) coumis)  ii 38
4bot.fruitmed.hip, fruit of the (wild) rose
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ou si il soit en tele saison Que peussés trover boutons, O lait de chievre les bevés  168.594
decor.ornamental bud
( 1428-32 )  une aultre couppe d’or [...] a ung furtelé d’ung boton de fuilles d’or  C4
5 name (used as a surname)
( 1296 )  William Boton  Button
( 1379 )  Johanne Botoun’  Button
boton d'eglenter
bot.fruithip, fruit of the wild rose
( MS: s.xiii )  arbuta: (C) botun de hay, eglentere  ii 32
pej.(as object of little worth)
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Kar ne vaut lur poisance un butun d’eglenter  1672
boton de haie
bot.fruithaw, fruit of the hawthorn
( MS: s.xiii )  arbutum: butun de haye, hepe  i 122
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1333 )  E des espines les bremeles, Botons des haies et meles  (L) 275
pej.(as object of little worth)
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Mes tiel excusaciun Ne vaut de aie [sic] un botun  9355
boton de rose
bot.fruithip, fruit of the (wild) rose
( 1428-32 )  une aultre couppe d’argent dorré [...] a ung furtelet d’une boton de rose  C9

See also:

botoner1  botoner2  botoner3  botoner4  botonete  botour1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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