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(
s.xii1; MS: c.1145
) Il entrerumpiet la peirre el desert [...]
Oxf PsANTS 88.77.18
(
1150-70; MS: 1225-1300
)
Les trestu[r]z des deserz errerunt
Tristthomas2 2100
(
1212; MS: 1212-13
)
un eremite Qui [...] fut habitant El desert
Dial GregSATF 17580
(
c.1259; MS: c.1259
) L’arche (=Noah's ark) u nuls ne puet avenir pur le desert e la vermine
Iterparis 136
(
s.xivin; MS: 1382
)
Et ceo qe fue en desert (M.E. Him that flethe into wildernesse)Nominale 371
♦geog.waste land, uncultivated or uninhabited land:
(
s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3
)
enprouemenz de gasz e de deserz
Mir Just 182
(
MS: s.xiv2
)(Albina and her sisters arrive in what would become England:) le vewe de pleintee des oiseaux et le oie de lour melodie en bois fust tout lour solace, et ceo q'ils eurent trové taunt beauté de deserte
Albina CCC 4v
(
1155; MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Le Humbre od lur grant gent passerent, Chastels e viles deserterent. Li Bretun virent la tristur E le desert faire des lur
BrutWACE 6150
(
1155; MS: s.xiiex
)
Encore i perent les ruines E les deserz e les guastines Que Gurmund fist en plusurs lieus Pur tolir as Bretuns lur fieus
BrutWACE 13632
desert1 (s.xii1)