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

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crope,  croppe,  croup,  crowp,  crowpe;  crupe  (croepe  Gui War 5902)  
  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

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1horsesanat.zool.crupper, hindquarters: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  La croupe li torne de Arundel le quernu  Boeve 3464
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  prist le jeaunt […] e le reversa sour la crupe du chival  Turpin 705
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  clunis: croup de cheval  TLL ii 82.63
♦anat.(of human) buttock: 
( MS: s.xiii )  nates : (L) nages vel crupes  TLL ii 125.3
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  clunus: (T) crowpe  TLL ii 19.1848
2(piece of harness) crupper: 
( 1414-15 )  1 nova cella pro valettis cum peytrell, croppe et freno  Durham 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  Waterford busby 263.S64.8
croupe de gris
skins colour grey squirrel fur: 
( 1366 ) Unum longum goune furratum cum crowp de grys  Test Ebor i 81
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