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enboer (1121-35)
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enboer (1121-35)

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embower;  enbouer,  enbower,  enbouwer;  (ebower)  
  FEW:  *bawa *1,302a Gdf:  emboer 3,33b GdfC:  emboer 9,432c TL: emböer 3,53 DEAF:  boe (emboër)  DMF:  embouer  TLF:  embouer  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to bedaub: 
( MS: s.xiii )  hic linor a linio (P) emboer  (ms. embloer) gallice  Gloss Nequam1 261

v.refl.

to cover oneself with mud: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Quant s’est (=Ydrus) enboee E del limun luee [...]  Best ants 645

p.p. as a.

muddy, covered with mud: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Char devint enpudrete, E puldre enboete. De boe vint limun, E de char quir avum  Best ants 670
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  E trestuz enboez de tai se fist heser  Becket1 6047
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  cel enboué chemin  S Edw paris ANTS 1946
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  (The horse) Si est de la bowe par tant enbouwee  BOZ Char 127
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  les douz pieez [...] qe vous veistes si enbowés quant il ala en la chanele de la rue  Sz Med1 142
♦also_fig.dirty, soiled: 
( MS: 1272-82 )  si plusours m’atouchoient, jeo serroie ebowé  Digby 86 stengel 87
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Pluis vault blaunche nape mult usé Qe la novel mult enbowé (M.E. enboweþ)  Fem2 75.13

See also:

boue1  embrowé 
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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