croupe1 (s.xiiiin)
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croupe1 (s.xiiiin)

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  FEW:  *kruppa 16,417a Gdf:  croppe 2,384c GdfC:  crope 9,255b TL: crope 2,1094 DEAF:  crope  DMF:  croupe  TLF:  croupe  OED:  croup /croupe n.  MED:  croupe n.  DMLBS:  cropa 521a
crope,  croppe,  croup,  crowp,  crowpe;  crupe,  croepe  5902  

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1horsesanat.zool.crupper, hindquarters: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  La croupe li torne de Arundel le quernu  3464
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  prist le jeaunt […] e le reversa sour la crupe du chival  705
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  clunis: croup de cheval  ii 82.63
♦anat.(of human) buttock: 
( MS: s.xiii )  nates : (L) nages vel crupes  ii 125.3
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  clunus: (T) crowpe  ii 19.1848
2(piece of harness) crupper: 
( 1414-15 )  1 nova cella pro valettis cum peytrell, croppe et freno  225
3geog.(of hill, montain) rounded top: 
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Mais les vins qui croisent az pendans et sur la crupe de la montaigne plus vallent, que plus sunt atemprez por ce qu’il ne sunt trop pres ne trop loing du solel  263.S64.8
croupe de gris
1 skins colour grey squirrel fur: 
( 1366 ) Unum longum goune furratum cum crowp de grys  i 81
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