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(
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 Rouwace i 173.331
(
s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3
)
al chancel la u fud l’arche e li seintuaries
Liv Reis1 124
chancel (c.1136-65)