cirge (1113-19)
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cirge (1113-19)

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[ FEW: 2/i,604b cereus; Gdf: 2,132c cierge 2; GdfC: 9,91c cierge; TL: 2,426 cierge 2; DEAF:  cierge 2; DMF:  cierge 1; TLF:  cierge; OED:  cierge n.; MED:  cerge n.; DMLBS: 318a cergia ]
cerge,  cerege;  cierge;  serge,  sierge,  sirge,  siregey  101  

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1candle: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Le cirge ne vereit Pur la grande clarted Que isterait de cel red (='pyre')  2564
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) Sur ço n'estout cirge alumer  326
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  En une chambre vyt cerges arder  1106
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  cereus: (D) cirge  ii 55
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  quant veit lampe ou cierge enlumie  129
( 1383-84 )  Item en costages pur les .vij. serges […] et pur le wast de les torches […] – .xxxviij. s. .j. d. ob.  206
cirge portant
1candle-bearer: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  Acolit est le quart degré […] Qui en fraunceis en espunaunt Atant dit come ‘cirge portant’  912
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