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belté (s.xii1/3)

belté (s.xii1/3)

bauté;  bealté,  bealted,  bealtee;  beauté,  beauwted,  beawté;  belted,  beltet,  belteth;  beuté,  bewté;  biatei,  biauté,  bieuté  (beatei  Secr WATERFORD1 84.109)  
  FEW:  bellus 1,320a Gdf: GdfC:  belté 8,314b TL: biauté 1,960 DEAF:  bel 1 (biauté)  DMF:  beauté  TLF:  beauté  OED:  beauty n.  MED:  beaute n.  DMLBS:

s.

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
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  feme de graunde beauté  Anon Chr1 153.14
( MS: c.1400 )  par la beuté de sa chare  SAMPS2 (H) 17v
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
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Encraisserunt les bealtez del desert  Oxf Ps ANTS 78.64.13
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  A force l’ad ravi[e], sire, pur ses beautez  Rom Chev ANTS 7535
( 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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