corteour (s.xiii1/3)
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corteour (s.xiii1/3)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1569a currere; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,917 cortëor; DEAF:  corre (corteor); DMF:  courteur; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
courteour;  curteour,  curteur,  coretter  iii 234,  coureter,  courtrer  22, 
pl. courtehours  

s.

1broker, go-between, procurer: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  jeo (=l’Emperour Orgoille) vous (=chaplains) pri par amours Ke vous suihez (=follow) les courtehours (var. (B: c.1330) courteours). Ceaux sount la gent de ceste vie Ke plus me fount de courtessie  230
( 1312; MS: s.xiv1 )  Il (=covetousness) resceit les lescheours, Il resceit les corteours (var. (U: s.xiv1/4) curteours; (R: s.xiv1) coveitours; (Ph: s.xiv1/3) curteurs)  320
♦pej.huckster, trafficker: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Cil losengier, cil courteour Que estranglent sainte Eglise Par lour dounz  86

a.

1smooth, plausible, bland: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  les chanoines […] pur aver del rey plus favur ellurent un chanoine curteur  910
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