deplumer (c.1290)
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deplumer (c.1290)

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  FEW:  pluma 9,87b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  desplumer 9,354b TL: deplumer 2,1420 DEAF:  plume (deplumer)  DMF:  déplumer  TLF:  déplumer  OED:  deplume v.  MED:  deplumen v.  DMLBS:  deplumare 618a
desplumer  

v.n.

1domesticto pluck (poultry): 
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Homme [...] deplume la cochevyz (M.E. pulluth a coppid larke)  309
( MS: s.xiv1 )  pernez une geline e desplumez le cul  61.547
( 1396; MS: c.1400 )  il boutera les anes dedans le pot [...] et puis il les desplumera  60

inf._as_s.

1orn.zool.moulting: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  Et le deplumer (M.E. moutyng) ensement Les (=hens) affeblist (M.E. febelez) trop souvent  (O) 333vb

p.p._as_a.

1domesticplucked: 
( MS: s.xiv1 )  aparailez ben un geline desplumé  24.181
♦featherless: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Si ma (=the owl’s) test fust desplumee, ele serreit auxi grele com est la vostre  75
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