1brightness, blaze of light:
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
Si descendit [...] Del ciel un feu a grant esclaire
12171
2meteo.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
)
hec casma, gallice: (T) escleyr
ii 33
3lapid.jewel.bright ornament or gemstone:
(
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
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