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embrasement (1174-75)
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embrasement (1174-75)

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enbrasement  
  FEW:  *bras 15/i,257b Gdf:  embrasement 3,38a GdfC:  embrasement 9,434c TL: embrasement 3,62 DEAF:  brese (embrasement)  DMF:  embrasement 1  TLF: ∅ OED:  embrasement n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

s.

burning blaze: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Qu’il vus ait de guerre [...] e guaste lur cuntree Par fu e par enbrasement tute seit alumee!  FANT OUP 444
( s.xii2; MS: c.1200 ) Sis metrunt en l'embrasement del feu (Latin: Et mittent eos in caminum ignis)  Psalter Comment i 110.121
♦heat: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  cauma: enbrasement  TLL i 341
♦med.burning sensation, inflammation: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  li naufrés ad dolor el chief [...] enbrasement es euz; il est tot devez  A-N Med i 137.i

See also:

embraser1  embrasure  esbrasement 
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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