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[cincantaine] (1271-72)
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[cincantaine] (1271-72)

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cinkaunteine,  cinquanteine  
  FEW:  quinquaginta 2/ii,1480a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  cinquantaine 9,95b TL: cincantaine 2,434 DEAF:  cincante  DMF:  cinquantaine  TLF:  cinquantaine  OED:  quinquagesima n.  MED:  quinquages(i)me n.  DMLBS:  quinquagenus 2633a

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1num.fifty: 
( s.xivin; MS: c.1330 )  Sentefyer lur ribaudie Par cynkaunteyne de ‘Ave Maries’  BOZ Serm 74.55
2mil.quingenary cohort, division of five hundred men: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le seconde compaignie ad de gent a pé .v. cenz e .l. e .v., e de gent a chival .lx. e .vi., si est la compaignie apelé cinquanteine  vegetius2 40.15
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