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bastard (1086)
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bastard (1086)

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bastar,  bastarde,  bastart;  baistard   (bastre ),
(pl.  baustars)  
  FEW:  bastardus 15/i,72a Gdf:  bastard 1 1,593b GdfC:  bastart 8,300b TL: bastart 1,863 DEAF:  bastart  DMF:  bâtard  TLF:  bâtard  OED:  bastard n. and a.  MED:  bastard n.  DMLBS:  bastardus 186a

s.

1lawbastard, illegitimate (person): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Assaracus, ki bastarz ere, De par sun pere aveit un frere  Brut WACE 197
( MS: s.xiii )  hic maurer est ille qui non habet patris hereditatem gallice: bastar  TLL ii 152
( 1260; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  il est bastard pur ço [...] k’il fu nez devant les esposailles  Brev Plac 49
( MS: s.xiiiex )  spurius: (C) bastard; nothus: (C) bastard  TLL ii 168
♦William the Conqueror: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  L’ost d’Engleterre i fu del Bastart afiee  Becket1 5099
♦horseszool.cross-bred: 
( 1398-99 )  sell’ pur .j. bastard ové bride et peytrelle  TNA E/163/6/13 m 2r
♦bot.sucker: 
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  resiva: bastarde  TLL i 147
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  spuria: (L) bastards  TLL ii 76
2scoundrel: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Descumfit s’en vunt li bastard Dunt li rois fait grant assart  S Aub 343rubr
3 name (used as a surname): 
( 1201 )  William le Bastard  Family Names Bastard

a.

1lawbastard, illegitimate: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Robert, li quens de Gloecestre, qui filz le rei bastre dut estre  Rom de Rou wace ii 307.11408
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  entre frere muylleré et frere bastard seisi de l’heritage, le muylleré ne gist pas ceste assise  BRITT ii 59
( 1313-14 )  Le mulieré prist femme et avoit un fiz, son fitz ousta son uncle bastard  YBB Ed II vii 143
( 1346 )  nous purroms averer qe R. fut bastarde, ele reliereit sur nous [...]  YBB 20 i Ed III 127
♦base, low-born: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  Sire Brus, sire roi bastard, jeo lo que en alez  LANGTOFT thiol2 363.2001
( MS: s.xiiiex )  ignobilis: bastard  TLL ii 169
♦(of ingredients, wine, etc.) mixed, bastard: 
( MS: c.1300 )  Apostolicon bastart vaut a dolor oster  Pop Med 326
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  encens alisandrins e code e encens bastard  Med Recs 202
( 1385 )  quarant toneux de vyn bastard  King’s Bench vii 42
( 1415; MS: s.xv1/4 )  vous averés de boun malvusia, romeny bastarde, osey, tyr [...] et vyn blanc  Man lang ANTS 73.15
2 name (used as a surname): 
( 1086 )  Robert Bastard  Family Names Bastard
( 1169-70 )  Willelmus Bastard  Pipe Roll xv 18
drap bastard
cloth of unusual make or size: 
( 1485-1509 )  pur toutz manere draps [...], tant colouré come blanket et bastardes  TNA E163/9/21 f.20r
branche, verge bastarde
sucker: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  spuria: branges bastars  TLL i 89
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  vitulamina spuria: (L) verges bastardes (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) branchis bastars; (C: s.xiii2) branches baustars)  TLL ii 76
musc bastarde
musc
quartaine bastarde
quartaine
selle bastarde
packsaddle: 
( 1423 )  i bastard ceell, covert de rouge & velvet, garniz d'argent dorrez, ovec i bridell & i peitrelx del suyte [...]  Rot Parl1 iv 225
rose bastarde
rose1
vin bastard
a sweetened, spiced wine: 
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Vin de La Rochelle bastart est fort et sec et douç en savour  Waterford busby 263.S64.25
( 1415; MS: s.xv1/4 )  romeny, bastarde, osey [...] et vin blanc  Man lang ANTS 73.15
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