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[ FEW: 3,275a *exclariare; Gdf: 3,398b esclair /3,398b esclaire 1; GdfC: 9,516a esclair; TL: 3,911 esclair; 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.xii^3/4; MS: s.xiv² ) Devers l’occident lur surd tempeste sodeinement De toneire e d’escleire e d’un orible vent 5791

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) 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.xiv^m ) hidous toneres et escleirs 252.24

♦meteo.thunderbolt:

( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) casma: (T) escleyr ii 33

faire esclair

1meteo.to lighten:

( s.xii^3/4; MS: s.xiv² ) Fist esclair e toneir[e] e vent a desmesure 412

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