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esclair (1121-25)

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esclair (1121-25)

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esclaire; escleir, escleire; escler, esclere; eclere, eccleir; ecclar

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: ∅

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brightness, blaze of light:

( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) Si descendit [...] Del ciel un feu a grant esclaire Dial Greg SATF 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 S Brend mup 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 Rom Chev ANTS 5791

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) Dunt le vent veint e dunt toneire, Dunt foudre, dunt fu, dunt escleire Rom 15 (Dd.10.31) 258

( MS: s.xiii² ) fulgur: esclayr TLL i 160

( s.xiii²; MS: s.xiv¹ ) De grant tempes (l. tempés?) et de escleire, De pluvie, de vent et de tonere Serm DTC Ash 11

( c.1334; MS: s.xiv^m ) hidous toneres et escleirs TREVET Cron¹ 252.24

♦meteo.thunderbolt:

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

faire esclair

meteo.to lighten:

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

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