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cerf1 (1121-25)
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cerf1 (1121-25)

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cierf;  serf,  serve; 
pl. cers,  cervs;  cerves,  cervez;  serfs,  serves  (cervefs  Windsor 187)  
  FEW:  cervus  2/i,613b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  cerf 9,20a TL: cerf 2,127 DEAF:  cerf  DMF:  cerf  TLF:  cerf  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  cervus 321a

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1mammalszool.stag: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  berbiz [...] Tutes erent itant grandes Cum sunt li cers par ces landes  S Brend mup 390
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Urs e liuns e cers e deims  S Gile1 1233
( MS: s.xii2 )  cervus: heort .i. cerf  TLL i 22
( c.1200; MS: c.1300 )  le rei e Desiré [...] a un grant serf anbedui traient; il ne l'oscient ne ne plaient  Desiré2 425
( s.xiv1/4; MS: s.xivm )  Le cerf porte os, e le sengler e le deym argos  TWITI1 34
♦ decor. representation of a stag: 
( c.1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) En Magot la cité Est un cerf tresgeté; De kivre est suroré  Sibile 1009
2skinsstag-skin: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Le barge Labam [...] Coverie estoit de serfs et oynt de pis bullie  Dest Rome1 323
3implementdomesticdrinking-horn: 
( 1397 )  […] mon second meillour cerf d’or et un hanap d’or  Test Ebor i 231
lange de cerf
lange2
teste de cerf
herald.(as an armorial bearing) stag’s head: 
( MS: c.1334 )  M. de H., d’argent a un fés de sable, en les fés troiz testes de serf d’or  Ashmole Roll m 4
( 1372 ) une nouche d'or ové un test de cerf ové safyrs dyamans balays et perles  GAUNT1 ii 112
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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