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menuer2 (s.xii3/4)

menuer2 (s.xii3/4)

 
  FEW:  minutus 6/ii,136b Gdf:  menuier 1 5,247b GdfC: TL: menuier 5,1466 DEAF:  menu (menuier)  DMF:  menuyer  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

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1very small, diminutive
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  De petit[e] estature estoit: ne mie menuers (:enters)  Rom Chev ANTS 5219
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  De part le rei ert ja li fous plus menuiers (var. (H: s.xiiiin) amenuisiez); La dame en fu dolente, kui li reis ert mult chiers  Becket1 306
2in quick succession
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Au desancrer sounerent .m. graels menuer, La marine fremist et bondist le graver  Dest Rome1 308

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See also:

menu  menuaille  menuement  menuer1  menuet1  menuet2  menur  menuresse 
This is an AND2 Phase 3 (I/Y-M) entry. © 2008-2012 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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