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enboer (1121-35)

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enboer (1121-35)

enbouer,  enbower,  enbouwer;  embower  (ebower)  
[ FEW: *1,302a *bawa; Gdf: 3,33b emboer; GdfC: 9,432c emboer; TL: 3,53 emböer; DEAF: ; DMF:  embouer; TLF:  embouer; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]

v.trans.

to bedaub
( MS: s.xiii )  hic linor a linio (P) emboer  (ms. embloer) gallice  261

v.refl.

to cover oneself with mud
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Quant s’est (=Ydrus) enboee E del limun luee [...]  645

p.p. as a.

muddy, covered with mud
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Char devint enpudrete, E puldre enboete. De boe vint limun, E de char quir avum  670
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  E trestuz enboez de tai se fist heser  6047
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  cel enboué chemin  1946
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  (The horse) Si est de la bowe par tant enbouwee  127
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  les douz pieez [...] qe vous veistes si enbowés quant il ala en la chanele de la rue  142
also_fig.dirty, soiled
( MS: 1272-82 )  si plusours m’atouchoient, jeo serroie ebowé  87
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Pluis vault blaunche nape mult usé Qe la novel mult enbowé (M.E. enboweþ)  75.13

See also:

boue1  embrowé 
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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