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entrelacer (1155)
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entrelacer (1155)

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entrelacier,  entrelascer  
  FEW:  laqueare 5,179a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  entrelacier 9,488a TL: entrelacier 3,659 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  entrelacer  TLF:  entrelacer  OED:  interlace v.  MED:  enterlacen v.  DMLBS:  interlaquaere 1436a

v.trans.

1 to twine, bind together: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  (those inside a besieged castle) Mairiens e cleies (=latticework fences) entrelacent, Kernels refunt, portes afaitent  Brut WACE 13546
2to enfold, embrace: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiiex )  Entrelacent mult ferm les braz, Cum il fussent cosu de laz  Donn Am ants 649

p.p. as a.

1entwined: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ensi sunt il (=man and wife) entrelacé Que nuls n’ad de sei poesté  Mirur2 1798
2intertwined: 
( 1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  Car li un fu blanc e deugez E l’autre vermeil entrelacez Cum lilz e rose  S Thom beneit1 1775
♦mingled, mixed together: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  Il serrunt pris en grant destresce [...] en seyf e en fumé, En freyt, en chaud entrelascé  Evang1 540
♦adorned by interlacing (with): 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Le cors out de bele estature [...] e les braz beaus, Tut entrelacé de freseaus  Ipom BFR 422
3bot.grafted: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  [...] consiti vero quarundam arborum cerculis (l. surculis), aliarum codicibus intercertis (gloss: (C) entrelacez) (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) entoys; (L: s.xiiiex) entés)  TLL i 172.78 and ii 38.78
4incorporated (in): 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  gent a chival, ke sunt apelé legionayres, por ce ke il sunt entrelacez as legions  vegetius2 34.18

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See also:

lacer1 
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