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coustre1 (1160-74)

coustre1 (1160-74)

cousdre;  cosdre,  cusdre;  coutre,  custre;  coser,  cosir;  cuser,  cusir  (consure );
ind.pr.3 couuset,  cuset cusuet; 
ind.pr.6 cusent,  cusunt; 
ind.impf.3 cosoit; 
pret.3 cosi; 
imper.5 cosez,  cusez; 
sbj.pr.3 cucet,  cuset,  cusuet; 
p.p. cosé,  cossu,  cosu,  cousé,  cousu,  cozu,  cusé  
[ FEW: 2/ii,1088a consuere; Gdf: 2,330c coudre; GdfC: 9,210a cosdre; TL: 2,957 cosdre; DEAF:  cosdre; DMF:  coudre 2; TLF:  coudre 1; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: 459b consuere 2 ]

The forms conseu, consue, consuete, consuit, consuitz, frequent in Rot Parl1 iii and iv, are to be read as cou-.

v.trans.

1textileto sew
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  De chauciers faire apris esteient; Tailler e custre les saveient  S Jean ANTS 6436
( MS: s.xiii2 )  consuat: (C) ensemble, couuset (var. (L: xiii/xiv) cuset)  TLL ii 69
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  prist towayles e lynceles […] e les fist coutre ensemble  Fouke ANTS 13.17
( 1386 )  […] si comme le record cosu a ceste bille purporte  Ladbroke 318
( 1422 )  une cedule consuit (l. cousuit) a mesme la petition  Rot Parl1 iv 183
textileto embroider
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  dys cortines […] de oevere cosee  Bible Royal 54rb
med.surg.to stitch, suture
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Cosez tute la veine od une aguille  A-N Med i 63.iii
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Pur grant playe ou mire ne veint pas par tens a coutre  Med Recs 199
2 mil. to pierce, stab (with a weapon)
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Normant, qui l’orent veu, L’ont parsui e conseu, Es fers des lances l’ont cosu, A terre l'ont mort abatu  Rom de Rou wace ii 211.8745

v.intrans.

textileto sew
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Par un jur de feste cosi, Dedenz la paume li feri L’angoillie dont ele cosoit  S Audree1 4472-4
( MS: s.xiv2 )  temps de cuser (var. coustre; Latin: tempus consuendi)  Bible hackett 197rb
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  dez cousterers ou taillandres que savent […] ignelement coustre  Man lang ANTS 6.10

See also:

cousturer2  recoustre 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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