1desert, barren:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
)
En terre deserte e desveiable e nient ewose
77.62.3
(
1398
)
la pays est povre e desert e ne poet vivir sanz estre vitailé d'autre pays e ne poet sustinir n'endurer tiels customes
SC 8/221/11021
2deserted:
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
Seit feite la demurance d’eals deserte
(Latin: deserta)
68.28
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
Toz sont desert li ermitoire E descovert li reclusoire
14083
(
1214;
MS: 1214-16
)
les rues [...] Desertes, sans abiteour
793
3uninhabited:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
deus citez fonda Einz al desert pais par ont l’ost passa
1163
(
1214;
MS: 1214-16
)
Parmi les desertes guastines Quereit les croutes souzterrines, Les chesnes e les fous cavez
1161
1geog.desert, wilderness:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) Il entrerumpiet la peirre el desert [...]
88.77.18
(
1150-70;
MS: 1225-1300
)
Les trestu[r]z des deserz errerunt
2100
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
un eremite Qui [...] fut habitant El desert
17580
(
s.xivin;
MS: 1382
)
Et ceo qe fue en desert
(M.E. Him that flethe into wildernesse)
371
♦
geog.waste land, uncultivated land:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
enprouemenz de gasz e de deserz
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
4v
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