1citizen, inhabitant of a town:
(
1155;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
La cité vit mult empeiree E de bons citedeins voidee
7984
(
c.1230;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Lé cithezeinz de la cité de Watreford
1380
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
de vile est dit villein, de bours borjois, e de cité
cetezein
79
(
1318
)
en Loundres le meir et les
cytezeyns sount sovereyns
Ed II xxii 266
(
1430-31
)
John Asger,
citesein de Norwych
iv 387
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