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daufin (s.xii3/4)
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daufin (s.xii3/4)

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dauffin,  dauphine;  delfin,  delphin;  dolfin,  dolphin  
  FEW:  delphinus 3,35a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  delfin 9,295b TL: daufin 2,1200 DEAF:  daufin  DMF:  dauphin  TLF:  dauphin 1  OED:  dolphin n.  MED:  dolfin n.  DMLBS:  delphin 604a

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1ich.zool.dolphin: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) Delfins ad al Tigre qui mult sunt bon nour. Eskerdé ont le dos trenchant cum rasur  Rom Chev ANTS 6868
( MS: s.xii2 )  delfin: mereswyn, delfinus  Aelfric Gloss 46.113
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  un pesson est en la mier, grant de cors e greignour de curtesie, delphyn appellé  BOZ Cont 67
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  le pourpeys, dolfyn et la baleyne  Man lang ANTS 11.15
( MS: s.xvm )  Poison salcie [...] le dolfyn  Fr Voc 372
♦herald.representation of a dolphin: 
( c.1350; MS: s.xvin )  Le roy de Malogres porte de goules ové deux dolphins d’or bouche a bouche  Grimaldi 321
2 name (used as a surname): 
( 1171 )  Geoffrey Dolfin  Family Names Dolphin
( 1256 )  Adam filius Dolfin  Family Names Dolphin
daufin de(l) mer
herald.representation of a dolphin: 
( s.xiii; MS: 1607 )  Le counte de Forest, gulez un dolphin del mere d’or  Eight Rolls 39.35
( c.1275 )  Le counte de Forest, de goule a un dauffin de mer d’or  Eight Rolls 47.37
daufin de Vienne
statustitledauphin of the Viennois, title proper to the Counts of the Viennois, Lords of Dauphiné: 
( 1297 )  Li cuens de Henaut, le dauphine de Vienne  Foedera1 i 879
( 1298 )  le daufin de Vienne  Foedera1 i 898
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  [...] deinz quel citee furent le dolphyn de Viene, le duke de Aungeoy [...]  Anon Chr1 46.20
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