1beauty, handsomeness:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Crisolites ad tel bealté
(ms. bauté) Come le or bien esmeré
Lapid 270.134
(
c.1135;
MS: 1267-68
) ele [...] Que bien resanbla margerie De sa biauté et de sa vie
S Marg wace 3.14 (A)
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: c.1300
)
jeo ne vi unkes mes enfaunt de ta beuté
Boeve 382
(
1266-1300;
MS: c.1300
)
la roine d’Inde t’envoa bias dons et grans, entre quez t’anvoa une pucelle tres belle de cui biatei maintenant eres soupris
Waterford busby 233.S30.16
2literatureembellishment:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
(in literary works) L’en fet sovente foiz beauté pur envoiser
(var. (P: c.1310) Hom feint sovent es faiz belté), Car a qui matir faut si covient purchacer
Rom Chev ANTS 1333
3beauty, beautiful feature:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Mes H. lé passa tuz de tutes beautez
Horn (O) 36
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
Confession [...] est ausint com une trop bele robe de beautez afublé
Ancren2 52.24
♦
meteo.mildness, the fact of being beautiful:
(
1401
)
les dits commissairs puissient en beauté [de temps] et les longs jours avoir tretie sur pais ou longes treves
Roy Lett Hen IV i 53
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belté (s.xii1/3)