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couardie (1155)
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couardie (1155)

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coardie,  cowardie;  cuardie;  kuwardie  (kuuuardie (l. kuwardie)  Amis 436 (var. C46))  
  FEW:  cauda 2/i,524a Gdf:  coardie 2,164b GdfC: ∅ TL: cöardie 2,844 DEAF:  cöe (cöardie)  DMF:  couardie  TLF: ∅ OED:  cowardy n.  MED:  couardie n.  DMLBS: ∅

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cowardice, lack of bravery: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Returner ne deignot il mie, Kar ço semblereit cuardie  Brut WACE 12468
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Dehez eit touz jours cowardie N’afert pruz a chivalerie  Ipom BFR 549
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  En fuaunt fu naez, chacé par maladye De mortele play, noun pas par couardye  LANGTOFT thiol2 380.1381
faire couardie
to be a coward, do something cowardly: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Pur pour de perdre la vie Ne vuldreit faire cuardie  Brut WACE 11368
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Quer je hei [...] a faire coardie, Chevaliers vi jouster, si en oi grant envie  Rom de Rou wace i 142.3919
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