despoille (s.xii1)
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despoille (s.xii1)

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[ FEW: 12,202a spoliare; Gdf: 2,632c despoille; GdfC: 9,354b despoille; TL: 2,1717 despueille /2,1717 despueil; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  dépouille; TLF:  dépouille; OED:  despoil n.; MED:  despoile n.; DMLBS: 632b despoliatio ]
despueille,  despuille  

s.

1coll.clothes: 
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Pur sa despuille l'enveia. Issi fu Bisclavret trahiz E par sa femme maubailiz  65.124
( MS: c.1335 )  vers les damoiseles (bathing in stream) ala E lur despoille enporta  iii 208.70

s._pl.

1spoils: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  je sui [...] sicume troevet multes despueilles (Latin: spolia)  232.CXVIII.162
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  De ses despuilles qu'il prendereient Totes lur maisuns emplereient  683
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