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

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desplumer  
  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

v.intrans.

domesticto pluck (poultry): 
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Homme [...] deplume la cochevyz (M.E. pulluth a coppid larke)  Nominale 309
( MS: s.xiv1 )  pernez une geline e desplumez le cul  Receptaria 61.547
( 1396; MS: c.1400 )  il boutera les anes dedans le pot [...] et puis il les desplumera  Man lang1 60

sbst. inf.

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

p.p. as a.

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