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creste (1271-72)

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creste (1271-72)

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FEW: crista 2/ii,1352a Gdf: creste 2 2,368c GdfC: creste 9,246c TL: creste 2,1036 DEAF: creste DMF: crête TLF: crête OED: crest n.1 MED: creste n.1 DMLBS: crista 519a

pl. cretez

s.

1crest:

( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 ) les crestes du dos (of fishes) sunt grignor et plus fors que les escales du ventre 286.S99.23

( 1356-57; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Cest oysel [...] n'est gaires plus grant d'un aigle et ad une creste sur soun teste plus grant qe un pavoun 151

♦mil.(of helmet) crest, any ornament as a badge or cognizance:

( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Me les centurions aveient escuz e heaumes de fer argenteez o crestes en travers, k'il feussent le meuz coneu de plus loins 51.10

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