[escaffald] (1322-27)
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[escaffald] (1322-27)

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  FEW:  *catafalicum 2/i,487a Gdf:  eskaffaire 3,474c GdfC:  eschafaut 9,508c TL: eschafaut 3,827 DEAF:  eschafaut  DMF:  échafaud  TLF:  échafaud  OED:  scaffold n.  MED:  scaffold n.  DMLBS:  scaffaldus 2949c
escaffalde,  eskaffalde,  ascaffolt  

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1build.scaffolding, wooden framework or platform used during construction or building: 
( 1322-27 )  e quatorse peces de merin par (l. pur) ascaffolts pris de .v. sous al overaigne du dit palais  SC 8/59/2912
2 raised platform, elevation: 
( 1387-88 ) expenditure entour les lices et barreres nadgarres faitz pur la bataill q'estoit en notre paleys de Westmoustre [...] ovesque les escaffaldes faites pur nous  473.n2
( 1390 )  [...] lui facez allouer par soun serement les coustages faitz entour les eskaffaldes in Smythfeld qeux il fit faire pur nus et pur nostre treschere compaigne la reigne a cause des joustes en Smythfeld  472
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