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

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

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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  6868
( MS: s.xii2 )  delfin: mereswyn, delfinus  46.113
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  un pesson est en la mier, grant de cors e greignour de curtesie, delphyn appellé  67
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  le pourpeys, dolfyn et la baleyne  11.15
( MS: s.xvm )  Poison salcie [...] le dolfyn  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  321
2statustitledauphin: 
( 1297 )  Li cuens de Henaut, le dauphine de Vienne  i 879
( 1298 )  le daufin de Vienne  i 898
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  [...] deinz quel citee furent le dolphyn de Viene, le duke de Aungeoy [...]  46.20
daufin de(l) mer
1herald.representation of a dolphin: 
( s.xiii; MS: 1607 )  Le counte de Forest, gulez un dolphin del mere d’or  39.35
( c.1275 )  Le counte de Forest, de goule a un dauffin de mer d’or  47.37
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