bruere (1121-25)
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bruere (1121-25)

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  FEW:  brucus 1,557a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  bruiere 8,388b TL: bruiere 1,1171 DEAF:  bruiere  DMF:  bruyère  TLF:  bruyer  / bruyère  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  bruaria 1 219b
breuere,  bruer,  bruiere;   

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1bot.heather: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  iloec art Cume bruere en un asart  1158
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Pernez le tendrun de bruiere  182
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  les esplez etc. [...] com en herbage et en bruere  71
♦geog.heath, moorland: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  De porcs e de berbiz voidereit la bruiere  6090
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  foreste ou bruereou mareys ou autre gastine  i 382
( 1324-25 )  gasz [...] ceo est asavour, jaunz, bruere et autre pasture  i 416
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