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cocatrice (s.xii3/4)
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cocatrice (s.xii3/4)

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cocatriz,  coketriz,  cockatris; 
pl. cocatrix  
  FEW:  calcare 2/i,65b Gdf:  cocatris 2,165a GdfC: ∅ TL: cocatriz 2,512 DEAF:  cocatriz  DMF:  cocatriz  TLF: ∅ OED:  cockatrice n.  MED:  cocatrice n.  DMLBS:  cocatrix 368a

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rept.zool.crocodile: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les fors cocatrices e les ypotamos  Rom Chev ANTS 5692
( 1219-21; MS: s.xivin )  En le braz de flum ke curt a Tanise sunt mult de cocatrix. Li cocatriz est une beste de la faiture e de la furme de lesarde, mes mult est grande. E si ad quatre piez e curtes quises e grande teste e gros piez e plener, e mult est orrible beste a veer  Terre Sarazins Sum 137
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) Le Nil ki s'espant e aruse tute Egipte [...]. Cocatriz i meinnent  Iter paris 182
( MS: s.xiv2 )  sur les pertuz del serpent et el crevage du coketriz […]  Bible hackett (A) 222va
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