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couardie (1155)

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couardie (1155)

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FEW: cauda 2/i,524a Gdf: coardie 2,164b GdfC: ∅ TL: cöardie 2,844 DEAF: cöe (cöardie) DMF: couardie TLF: ∅ OED: cowardy n. MED: couardie n. DMLBS: ∅

coardé, coardie, cowardie; cuardie; kuwardie, kuuuardie (l. kuwardie) 436 (var. C46)

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1cowardice, lack of bravery:

( 1155; MS: s.xii^ex ) Returner ne deignot il mie, Kar ço semblereit cuardie 12468

( c.1185; MS: s.xiii^m ) Dehez eit touz jours cowardie N’afert pruz a chivalerie 549

( s.xiii¹; MS: s.xiii^m ) Mais pensez del ferrir, n’i ait ja coardé 1611

( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv¹ ) En fuaunt fu naez, chacé par maladye De mortele play, noun pas par couardye 380.1381

faire couardie

1to be a coward, do something cowardly:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Pur pour de perdre la vie Ne vuldreit faire cuardie 11368

( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii ) Quer je hei [...] a faire coardie, Chevaliers vi jouster, si en oi grant envie i 142.3919

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