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bleste (s.xii3/4)
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bleste (s.xii3/4)

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bleiste,  blestre,  blet,  blete (blece)  
  FEW:  blista 1,410b Gdf:  bloste 1,665a GdfC: ∅ TL: blestre 1,1001 DEAF:  blestre  DMF:  bloste  TLF: ∅ OED:  blister n.  MED:  blister n.  DMLBS:  blesta 203c

s.

sod, turf: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Engins i font fere de diverse manere [...] Coverent les de blestes e de blanches feugeres  Rom Chev ANTS 6222
( MS: s.xiii1 )  (D) cespes, cespitis, gallice blece (l. blete )  Gloss Nequam1 259
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Les cors ad enterré suz bleste verdoiant  S Aub 1756
( MS: s.xiii2 )  cespite: bleste  TLL ii 3
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  glebas: (O) blestes (var. (C: xiiiex) bleystes; (D: xiii/xiv) blestis; (L: xiiiex) bletez)  TLL 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  Pet Plet ANTS 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  S Edw paris ANTS 3946
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