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1monasticarchit.eccl.cell, room used by a monk, nun, etc. in a monastic community or by a recluse, hermit, etc.:
(
1155; MS: s.xiiex
)
Li bon abé ne li bon moine N’unt pas seurté de lur vies; Celles laissent e abeies, Cors sainz e reliques en portent
BrutWACE 13498
(
s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiim
)
l’us de la celle de plum enseela
S Thaïs 66
(
s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15
)
la celle e le enclosteure de recluse ke deust […] estre li plus secré […] e li plus solitarie liu ke soit
Ancren2 194.14
2monasticeccl.monastery, nunnery, etc. (as a daughter house or dependent of a larger house):
(
c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex
)
[…] vers Cirecestre – La est la sele, la deit estre
GAIMAR1 4038
(
1212; MS: 1212-13
)
Honorez […] Qui fut fait abbes ore tart De la celle
Dial GregSATF 3689
(
s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex
)
'En la celle de ses vins (Latin: in cellam vinariam) le Rei me ad mené [...]'. Iceste celle u Deus ad ses vins herbergé Est Jerusalem lasus
Chant Chanz 891
(
s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15
)
li bon roi [...] mustra les celles de ses aromaz, son grant tresor e ses preciouses choses
Ancren2 237.6
celle1 (c.1136-37)