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carole (s.xii1)
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carole (s.xii1)

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caroel,  carol,  carolle,  caroule;  charole,  charoule;  karole,  karolle  
  FEW:  choraula 2/i,644a Gdf:  carole 1,786a GdfC: ∅ TL: carole 2,47 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  carole  TLF:  carole  OED:  carol n.  MED:  carole n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1musicchorus, choir: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Lodent le num de lui en carole; en tympane e saltier cantent a lui  Oxf Ps ANTS 132.149.3
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  E chantoent sicume en charoles (Latin: in choris)  Camb Ps 158.LXXXVI.6
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Un jur firent Troien feste A la maniere de lur geste; Caroles faiseient e geus Pur la joie des novels lieus U il esteient assené  Brut WACE 1079
2musicsong: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Ce me temoyne la karole: Meuz voyl ke amurs me occye ke autre mauz, taunt est la mort jolive  Am curt 52.83
( 1396; MS: c.1400 )  houvent et chantent de biaux karoles  Man lang1 66
( 1397 )  .j. large livre de tretés amoireux et moralitez et de carolles fraunceis bien esluminez  Gloucester Inventory 302
3dancedance, dancing: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  vunt treppant par lur caroles  Set Dorm ANTS 1647
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Ore pleut a Deu qe tels foles Ussent faces pleins de veroles (M.E. pokes), E teus ribaus les rugeroles (M.E. maselinges), Si lerreint dunt les braceroles E les foles les karoles  BIBB ROTH (G) 624
( MS: s.xiii ) tripudiis: (L) caroels  TLL ii 145
4jewel.ring, circle of (precious) stones: 
( 1370 )  qe le chaston desouthe (=lower bezel of the ring) soit parté a treis parties […]; et aneaux a bases caroles s’ils le voilont faire a double chaston […]  Goldsmiths 136
5insectszool.beetle, battledore: 
( MS: s.xiv )  ferritorium gallice: karole  TLL ii 156
6desk: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  pluteos romanice ‘karoles’ supra quos scribunt clerici  Gloss Sidon 141.53
( MS: s.xiii )  pluteum: desche vel carole  TLL ii 108
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  epicausterium (cathedra monachorum): (T) carole  TLL ii 33
♦monasticeccl.archit.carrel: 
( 1416-17 )  pro factura unius carole pro noviciis  Durham 225
( 1419-20 )  pro karolles in claustro  Durham 228
carole aux, des gaiants
toponymStonehenge: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Fai ci aporter la carole Que gaiant firent en Irlande, Une merveilluse ovre e grande De pieres en un cerne assises, Les unes sur les altres mises. Les pieres sunt teles e tantes, Tant ahuges e tant pesantes, Que force d' ome k'ore seit Nule d'eles ne portereit  Brut WACE 8042
( s.xii2; MS: 1284-90 )  Por la Karole des Gianz Qu’el mund ad esté mil anz  Brut Coll Arms 370
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiiin )  Pert uncore el quadreduble cerne De la charole que fud as jaianz Des bis rochers e merveillus e granz  Merlin Proph helias 28.29
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  la Carole des Geauntz, qe les Engleis apelent Stounhenges  TREVET Cron1 181.23
aler sur la carole
danceto go dancing: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Jeo alai sour la karole en le cimetere  Ancren2 733.15
mener caroles
danceto dance: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  el num del nostre Deu merrums charoles (Latin: deducemus choros)  Camb Ps 30.XIX.5
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