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escherdos (s.xii1/3)
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escherdos (s.xii1/3)

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escardeux;  eschardeux,  eschardous;  escardeus,  escardus,  eskerdus  (hesquerdus  TLL ii 61)  
  FEW:  *skarda 17,96a Gdf:  eschardeus 3,368b GdfC: ∅ TL: eschardos 3,854 DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a.

scaly, covered with scales: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  (the stone assius) Escherdos est cumme peissun  Lapid 208.120
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Led est e grant e trop hidus, De l’umbril amunt tot eskerdus  Gui War 7264
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Des poissons mangucent les plus escardeuses de ewe sause et de douce  A-N Med i 177
♦mil.mailed all around: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  circumsquamatas gallice: (L) escardus, ferun veyz (var. (C: xiiiex) teus haubers, gallice emvirounés; (D: xiii/xiv) envirun regards)  TLL ii 44
♦pathol.med.scabby, covered with scabs: 
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Les ordes mains (=of the cripple) al piz li sient E les eskerdus braz l’apriment  S Edw barking 2382

See also:

escherdé 
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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