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culture (s.xii3/4)
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The form coultoure is a cross reference to the following entry:

culture (s.xii3/4)

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colture,  cotoure,  coture;  coultoure,  coulture,  cousture,  couture;  custure,  cuture  
  FEW:  cultura 2/ii,1504a Gdf:  couture (culture) 2,344a GdfC: ∅ TL: culture 2,974 DEAF:  couture  DMF:  culture  TLF:  culture  OED:  culture n.  MED:  culture n.  DMLBS:  cultura n. 530b

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1agriculturalcultivation, husbandry: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Dunc porta a meisun le gain de sa culture  S Gile1 3899
( 1376 )  laborer de mayntenir la coultoure de la terre  Rot Parl1 ii 341
2agriculturalgeog.(piece of) cultivated land, arable field: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  La gent de cest pais est mout desconfortee [...], N’i a beuf ne charue ne villain en aree, Ne vingne prooignie ne couture semee  Rom de Rou wace i 39.696
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  […] Saul, ki de ses cultures repairad  Liv Reis1 21
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  quantz des champs et des cutures sount en demeyne  BRITT ii 67
( 1310 )  Nous avoms un culture (var. une cousture l. coulture) joynant a cel pree  YBB Ed II iii 104
( 1329-30 )  la garde del park […] et de deux cultures, c’est a dire Overcroft et Nethercroft  YBB 3-4 Ed III 343
♦agriculturalgeog.strip of ploughland: 
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  une custure (l. culture) de terre deit estre qarante perches de lunc e qatre perches de leesce  HENLEY2 314
♦agriculturalfurlong: 
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  duzze cultures funt une liue  HENLEY2 314
3geog.close, curtilage, area of land around a house: 
( 1283 )  quatre acres de pree en sun boys […] joste sa coture  Rot Parl2 25.38
( 1312 )  un maner ou J. […] ad une curte (var. culture) ajoynt a ceo maner a qeu curte (var. culture) G. ad un chemyn en temps overt  YBB Ed II xii 125 (va.r)
4formation, training: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Deus fist la culture del quor a la pucele (=B.V.M.) si quite ke deable n’i out ke chalenger  Joshua Sermons ii 30
5theol.pagancult, worship, veneration of a deity: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  A Saturne l’esteille font en haut cuture (var. (C: s.xiiim) en aust coture; (L: s.xiii2) en aust culture)  Rom Chev ANTS 6035
tor de culture
agriculturallivestockplough-ox: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Corn[e]s aveit al chief cum tor de custure (l. culture)  Rom Chev ANTS 4057
mettre en culture
agriculturalto put under cultivation, under the plough: 
( 1335 )  avant qe null terre fust mise en culture dedeinz la dist forest  Rot Parl1 ii 94
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