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aire1 (s.xii1)
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aire1 (s.xii1)

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aere;  eir,  eire, 
(pl. aris  Build salz 191,  arrys)  
  FEW:  area 25,160b Gdf:  aire 1,194b / here 1 4,459c GdfC:  aire 2 8,62a TL: aire 1 1,252 DEAF:  aire 1  DMF:  aire 1  TLF:  aire  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  area 4 122c / aer 2 44ra

s.

1level place, open space, yard: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Li abés ad l’estreim coilli Ki esteit par cel eir junché  S Gile1 2755
( s.xivm; MS: s.xivm )  li un grayn regard lui autres sicom confel (l. coufel) fait poucin en arrys du vilayn  Bon Vin 574 (A)
2archit.floor (of a room): 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Fist l'enperere el paleis faire Bancs e sieges envirun l'eire  Rom de Rou wace i 277.3118
( MS: s.xii2 )  pavimentum vel solum: flor, aere  Aelfric Gloss 51.161
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Enz el palois vint tost curant, […] Avant veit, s’esguarde le cors Qui en cel eire gisoit mors  Waldef BB 19460
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  amenerent en la sale un chevaler […] e le asistrent enmy le eyr’ e ly donerent a manger  Fouke ANTS 56.29
♦archit.agriculturalthreshing floor: 
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 ) duze sceppes de furment et de brais des eirs Hardewin des Eschalieres  Ely Arch 270.56
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  a cel ure en cele place […] severerent furment de la paille […] purquei mis sires li reis vient a sun serf? Respundi li reis: Pur achater de tei cest aire, ceste place  Liv Reis1 108
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  un jor son blé seia […] E si l’ot ja fait amener A l’eire tot prest a purger  Dial Greg SATF 16034
( s.xiiim; MS: s..xiiiex )  il tendra le flavel en sa main, si esneira sa aire  Legendary 82.90
3garden, bed: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Sicume la petite aire (Latin: areola) est aparaille (l. aparaillé) (Latin: praeparata) as arusemenz (Latin: irrigationes) des ewes  Camb Ps 72.XLI.1
4ground: 
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  de votre bercherie chescune quinzeyne fetes le eyre marler de terre arcillouse  HENLEY2 326
5 orn. nest of a bird of prey (built upon the flat surface of a rock): 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Mout y avoit oyseaux, tout le mont porprenoient En plusors liex trovoient, nis et aires fessoient  Rom de Rou wace i 24.247
tenir aire
orn.(of a bird of prey) to nest: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Illuec suelent aigle nigier, Fiare lur niz e tenir aire  Brut WACE 9431

See also:

leyr 
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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