esclair (1121-25)
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esclair (1121-25)

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  FEW:  *exclariare 3,275a Gdf:  esclair 3,398b / esclaire 1 3,398b GdfC:  esclair 9,516a TL: esclair 3,911 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  éclair  TLF:  éclair  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
esclaire;  escleir,  escleire;  escler,  esclere;  eclere,  eccleir;  ecclar  

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1brightness, blaze of light: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Si descendit [...] Del ciel un feu a grant esclaire  12171
♦meteo.lightning: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  La bataille sus est en l’air: Li fus des dous des dous (=dragon and griffin) fait grant esclair  1020
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Devers l’occident lur surd tempeste sodeinement De toneire e d’escleire e d’un orible vent  5791
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Dunt le vent veint e dunt toneire, Dunt foudre, dunt fu, dunt escleire  258
( MS: s.xiii2 )  fulgur: esclayr  i 160
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiv1 )  De grant tempes (l. tempés?) et de escleire, De pluvie, de vent et de tonere  11
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  hidous toneres et escleirs  252.24
♦meteo.thunderbolt: 
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  casma: (T) escleyr  ii 33
2bright ornament or stone (?): 
( 1363 )  (let wives of those below the rank of knight) ne usent esclaires, crimiles ne troefles, ne nul manere d’apparaill d’or, d'argent ne de perre  ii 278
faire esclair
1meteo.to lighten: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Fist esclair e toneir[e] e vent a desmesure  412
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