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enclosture (s.xii3/4)

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enclosture (s.xii3/4)

enclosteure,  enclostour,  enclostoure;  encloisture,  enclousture;  esclosture  (enclaustere  ii 101)  
[ FEW: 2/i,755a clausura; Gdf: 3,107c enclosture; GdfC: ; TL: 3,218 enclosture; DEAF: ; DMF:  enclôture; TLF:  enclôture; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]

s.

1enclosing
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et ausi pora hom purchacer par enclosture de pessouns et de autre sauvagine  i 215
( 1321-22 )  les despenses [...] entour la dite enclostoure de mure et de fosse  i 394
enclosure
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  si ascun destreignur ne troeve qe naamer forqe dedenz enclosture [...]  71
surrounding wall
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Une cité ont fet, grande est a demesure. D’un morter merveillus est fete l’ enclosture  6037
hedge
( 1315 )  Nota de wast ou illi (l. il i) avoit coupé l’ enclosture d’un pree [...]  Ed II xvii 122
fencing
( 1306 )  […] de enclore xx. perches entour le parke […] issint qe nous devoms aver la veille enclosture  33-35 Ed I 137
( 1315 )  chescun tenaunt une bové de terre deit couper le bois le Prior pur encloisture  Ed II xvii 151
2fastening (?)
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  a deliverer al purchaceour la seisine par le haspe ou par le anel de l’uihs, ou par encousture (var. (N: c.1310) enclosture; (M: s.xivin) encusture) de la porte  i 261
3monasticeccl.cloister
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  toz a le oil a l’overture de le encloistreure (var. (BN: s.xivin) encloisture)  199.20
( 1321 )  lour enclosture e refettour est saintuairie auxi com lour eglise  Ed II xxvi 196
fors d’enclosture
unenclosed, loose
( 1315 )  il vous bailla les joueals susnometz hors d’ enclosture et deseruiré  Ed II xvii 136

See also:

encloistre 
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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