boton (s.xii3/4)
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boton (s.xii3/4)

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[ FEW: 15/i,223b *botan; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 8,346a boton; TL: 1,1095 boton; DEAF:  boter (boton); DMF:  bouton; TLF:  bouton; OED:  button n.; MED:  botoun n.; DMLBS: 210b boto ]
botoun,  botun;  bottoun;  bouton,  boutoun;  butoun,  butun,  button,  buttun  

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1button, knob, stud: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Le frein fu de fin or [...] Les resnes de seie, a gros botons dorré  116
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  un chapel De fresaus aturné mut bel, A or purtreit, a beaus butuns  2735
( MS: s.xiii2 )  bulla, nodulus: botun  i 160
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  bulle: (T) botons(var. (A: xiii) buttuns; (C: xiiiex) botouns; (D: xiii/xiv) botuns de or; (L: xiiiex) botun)  ii 51
♦pej.(as object of little worth): 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ja nen avrai de vus le vaillant d’un butun  2865
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  ne lur valt un butun Lur chastier ne lur sarmun  6349
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Sentence u absoluciun Ne preisent vailant un butun  561
2med.pathol.pile, haemorrhoid: 
( MS: c.1300 )  Contra bottouns exeuntes sive etiam currentes sanguine [...]  262.164
3bot.tip (of branch): 
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  cime: (T) botuns de verges(var. (C: xiiiex) anglice crop; (A: xiii) butuns; (D: xiii/xiv) coumis)  ii 38
4bot.fruitmed.hip, fruit of the (wild) rose: 
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ou si il soit en tele saison Que peussés trover boutons, O lait de chievre les bevés  168.594
♦decor.ornamental bud: 
( 1428-32 )  une aultre couppe d’or [...] a ung furtelé d’ung boton de fuilles d’or  C4
5 name (used as a surname): 
( 1296 )  William Boton  Button
( 1379 )  Johanne Botoun’  Button
boton d'eglenter
1bot.fruithip, fruit of the wild rose: 
( MS: s.xiii )  arbuta: (C) botun de hay, eglentere  ii 32
♦pej.(as object of little worth): 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Kar ne vaut lur poisance un butun d’eglenter  1672
boton de haie
1bot.fruithaw, fruit of the hawthorn: 
( MS: s.xiii )  arbutum: butun de haye, hepe  i 122
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1333 )  E des espines les bremeles, Botons des haies et meles  (L) 275
♦pej.(as object of little worth): 
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Mes tiel excusaciun Ne vaut de aie [sic] un botun  9355
boton de rose
1bot.fruithip, fruit of the (wild) rose: 
( 1428-32 )  une aultre couppe d’argent dorré [...] a ung furtelet d’une boton de rose  C9
botoner#1  botoner#2  botoner#3  botoner#4  botonete  botour#1 
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