1mammalszool.antelope:
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xivm
)
Antalop
(ed. Autalop) (var. (B: c.1330) La partipol) est un beste coynt e viste e de gentil manere […] E tant com il est rongeant les burgeouns de ces foilles, il est gueyté del venour […]
73
♦
decor.representation of an antelope:
(
1423
)
Item, en or faitz en spangez des antiloppes
iv 217.98
(
1423
)
.ij. espiceplates d’or […], esmaillés en les founces ovec antilopz
iv 222
2
zool.mythological
fabulous horned animal from Mesopotamia:
(
1121-35;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Aptalon ceo est beste, Si est de tant fer estre Que hom n’i pot aprismer [...] Dous cornes ad agues, Trenchanz e esmolues E si sunt endentees [...], Que ele pot detrencher, Granz arbres eracher
757
(
1210-11;
MS: s.xiiim
) Iceste beste est si ignele, Que nul veneor ne l'ateint, [...], od ses cornes poet trencher Un arbre gros e parcreu; C'est esprové e ben seu. Aptalos
(ms. Aptalops) ceste beste a non, Si habite en la region Ou cort le fluive d'Eufrates
249
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