dru (s.xii1)

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dru (s.xii1)

[ FEW: 3,164a and 3,165b *druto-; Gdf: 2,776a dru 1 /2,776c dru 2; GdfC: 9,417b dru; TL: 2,2086 dru 1 /2,2088 dru 2; DEAF:  dru; DMF:  dru 1 / dru 2; TLF:  dru; OED:  drut n.; MED:  dru n.; DMLBS: ]
dreu;  drud,  drut, 
fem. drue; 
pl. drues,  drutz,  druz  

a.

1thick, lush
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Pres de quarante mil en gist sur l’erbe drue  7268
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  unk ne fu de buche oie La bealté de cele praerie, Tant fu l’erbe et drue et bele  247.97
2well-nourished
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Ja si dru n’en parterunt Les pores (=the poor) ke sur vus crierunt  90.49
3lusty, merry
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  çoe sunt esquiers, genz enveisez e druz  3993
( c.1185 )  Daunas est […] Halegres, seintz (=healthy) e drus  12278
4beloved, dear
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  le mesager quide ferir [...] mes il faili, si fert son frere dru  2221
( MS: s.xiv1 )  Dru geline quant ele pount (M.E. Leef hen whanne hue leyth), hayngneus quant ele gergole  405
precious
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  ses membres desjoyntz qe tant me furent drutz  109.1
5 name (used as a surname)
( 1275 )  William Dru  Drew

s.

1beloved, lover
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Si fesei[e] les serventeis [...] Entre les drues e les druz  8
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Mainte pucele i reçut sun dru Des chevalers qui erent venu, E li chevaler lur drues Des puceles que i erent venues  169
2follower, supporter
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Bien cuide avoir Normanz matez et confondus [...], Grant joie et grant gabeiz en mainne entre ses drus  i 101.2607
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  E li reis quant lo veit s’en claime a ses druz  2011
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Li dux est a son chastel venuz Od treis mile de ses druz  162
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Ki la (=stone) porte n’iert deceuz Ne par estranges ne par druz  162.166
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Sire Jesu, [...] Ki de l’ewe dunas a Moyseus, tun dru  872
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  La s’assemblerunt les druz Ke amerunt la gloriouse  143.26
3 name (used as a surname)
( 1255 )  Henry le Dru  Drew

s.f.

1beloved
( s.xii1; MS: s.xiiim ) Gloriuse pucele, ma drue e ma fille  33
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Suvent se espert, mut se demente E dit ‘Ore […] Remise sui drue seinz dru  5634
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  [...] ke meschef ne destourbe le fyn amaunt sa drue paer  53.126
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  vus recluses ke certeinement estes les Deu amies e drues  238.14
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  (B.V.M.) estoit amye et drue a si haut Roi  30

adv.

1closely
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  mult dru sunt les greynes assiz l’un decoste l’autre (=in a pomegranate)  200
druerie  druge  drujun 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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