1sod, turf:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Engins i font fere de diverse manere [...] Coverent les de blestes e de blanches feugeres
6222
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
(D) cespes, cespitis, gallice blece
(l. blete )
259
(
c.1235;
MS: c.1235
)
Les cors ad enterré suz bleste verdoiant
1756
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
cespite: bleste
ii 3
(
MS: s.xii/xiii
)
glebas: (O) blestes
(var. (C: xiiiex) bleystes; (D: xiii/xiv) blestis; (L: xiiiex) bletez)
ii 39
♦
lump of earth:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Quant l’alme del cors s’en ert parti [...] Ren ne sentira
(=the body) de nul affere Plus ke une bleste prise de terre
649
(
c.1245;
MS: c.1255
)
E tant vaut cele
(=life in Heaven) plus ke ceste
(=life on earth) Cum fait or plus k’une bleste
3946
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bleste (s.xii3/4)