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chancel (c.1136-65)
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chancel (c.1136-65)

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cancel;  chansel;  chauncel,  chauncell;  chencele  (canchel  Gloss Nequam1 259,  choncel  Hosp Rule 875)  
  FEW:  cancellus 2/i,174a Gdf:  chancel 2,50b GdfC: ∅ TL: chancel 2,206 DEAF:  chancel  DMF:  chancel  TLF:  chancel  OED:  chancel n.  MED:  chauncel n.  DMLBS:  cancellus 255b

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1grating, lattice: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Mais Deus esguardet de toz l’estre, E par cancelx e par fenestre  Salemon 4692
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  cancellus: kernel, chancel  TLL ii 87.69
2archit.eccl.chancel, area around the altar and choir of a church or chapel (set off from the nave by a screen, grating, etc.): 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  devant l’autel s’agenuila, Sur un leitrun ses vanz jeta, Mais al partir les oblia [...]. El chancel vint, ses guanz reprist  Rom de Rou wace i 173.331
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  al chancel la u fud l’arche e li seintuaries  Liv Reis1 124
( MS: s.xiii2 )  monumenta: chencele  TLL ii 3.3
( 1390-1412; MS: 1398 )  la coverture du chancel de nostre franche chapelle  Lett & Pet 153.105.2
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