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chevestre (s.xii1)
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chevestre (s.xii1)

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cavestre,  chavestre;  cheveistre,  cheveste,  chevester,  chevetre;  chievestre  
  FEW:  capistrum 2/i,251a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  chevestre 9,75c TL: chevestre 2,368 DEAF:  chevestre  DMF:  chevêtre  TLF:  chevêtre  OED:  chevaster n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  capistrum 269a / chevestrum 327c

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1equit.halter, head-stall of a horse: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Ne voilez estre fait sicum chaval e mul [...]. En chevestre e en frain lur maixeles cunstrain  59.31.12
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Mout voissiez [...] les chevals dez estables lor fessoient saillir, Nes pooient pessons ne chevestre tenir  i 70.1653
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  s’eust por frein chievestre E deus ou trois pels de moutons En leu de saele  1456
( MS: c.1250 )  hoc capistrum: chevestre  i 425
2med.facial bandage: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  com de chevestre metez un apoial por le nes retenir en sun liu  i 50
3fig.captivity: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  (Maud is captured) Et Robert sun frere demort en lur chevestre  i 486
se juer en chevestre
to rule the roost: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Par tot estey sire e mestre. Mes ore me juhe en chevestre, Kaunt la cité Acre ay pris, Dount jeo me su mult entremis (var. (B: c.1330) Kaunt tuz pays e regnez A ma devise sunt guyez)  58
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