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chaucee (1155)
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chaucee (1155)

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calcee;  caucé,  causee,  causei;  chacee,  chalcee,  chaucé,  chaucié,  chauciee,  chausé,  chausee; 
(pl. causeis,  chauncez)  
  FEW:  calx 2/i,108b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  chalciee 9,27b TL: chauciee 2,322 DEAF:  chauz 1 (chauciee 1)  DMF:  chaussée  TLF:  chaussée  OED:  causey n.  / causway n.  MED:  cauce(e n.  DMLBS:  calceta 1 242a

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1archit.causeway, road built up with limestone: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Par vals, par mores e par monz Fist faire chauciees e ponz  Brut WACE 2610
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Depecent les chaucees, la veie est estopee  Rom Chev ANTS 6217
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Lors l’unt pris e trahit par la rue e chaucee  S Aub 531
( 1314-15 )  les dites pountes et chauncez sont si deffetez et brusez que nul home ne pet bonement passer  Rot Parl1 i 308
( 1406 )  diverses chimyns, pontes et caucés sont defectives  Rot Parl1 iii 598
2geog.archit.dam, embankment: 
( 1332; MS: s.xivex )  (the waters of the Nile rise) grauns chaucez pur retenir l’ewe qe ne par (l. poet?) escoler de la cressaunce  Charboclois 318
( 1461 )  Ou pur sewers, wallez de maresshez, fossez, gutterez, caulcez, et pontz et autres defautez en ascun maresshe ou maresshes en ascune part de cest roialme […] faire estre repairez et emendez  Stats ii 387
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