1colour(of hair) hoary, grey or white with age:
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Peil out chanut, oilz juvenilz
407
(
MS: 1120-40
) Blanc ai le chef e le barbe ai canuthe
406
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: c.1300
)
mult estoit veuz homme e out chenue crine
368
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
canos: (C) chanuz
ii 39
♦
colour(of a person) hoary, grey-haired:
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
) Ast lur hoste, le veil chanud
825
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Le veillard estoit grant, chanuz e floriz
5416
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Si jeo preisse le secle trop a fes […] Mult tost chanu en devendreie
147
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xivin
)
li prestres […] dait estre canuz
1272
(
1266-1300;
MS: c.1300
)
useras suffumigations d’erbes acordans al tens et a ta complexion, car ce oivre les clostures de la cervelle, [...] la face clarefie et la veuwe, plus tart om devenra chennu
80.268
♦
colourskins(of fur) white or grey:
(
c.1185
)
Aturnez ert de riche pels De ben chanue sabeline
4779
1old, grey-haired man:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Le roy ont appellé vieillard e chanu
833
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
N’i out jovene ne chanu Ke ne deist […]
1565
(
s.xiii1/3;
MS: s.xivin
)
Uns blans chanuz levat dunc sus
465
1
old , grey-haired woman:
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xvii
)
lez legieres fames, lez vieilles, lez chanues
i 85.2090
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