1treesbot.bush:
(
1121-35;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Cest buissun est numé En griu 'erechine'
Best ants 779
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
se musçad [...] En un buissun
GAIMAR1 1826
(
MS: c.1250
)
hec frutex, rubus vel dumus: boissun
TLL i 427
(
c.1290;
MS: 1307-25
)
meuz chaunte mauviz
(M.E. throstel) en busson
(M.E. bosc)
BIBB ROTH (G) 715
(
s.xvin;
MS: s.xv1
)
Le vent vente par my le brousson
(M.E. bussh)
Fem2 5.12
♦
prov.(= 'Half a loaf is better than no bread'):
2treesgeog.bot.(pl.) bushes, brier-patch, thicket:
(
1155;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Entur la valee, es busuns, En treis leus mist ses compainuns
Brut WACE 409
(
MS: s.xiii
)
sentibus: .i. bussuns
TLL i 65
(
1285
)
issi q’il n’i eit fosse, suthboys ou bussuns ou l’em peut tapir
Stats i 97
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
dumetis: (C) en bussuns
(var. (Hb: s.xiii2) buschons; (A: s.xv2) busshi place)
TLL i 336
(
MS: s.xii/xiii
)
vepribus: bussuns
TLL ii 87
(
MS: s.xii/xiii
)
frutecta: (T) bossuns
TLL ii 39
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