escorcheur (s.xii/xiii)
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escorcheur (s.xii/xiii)

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  FEW:  *excorticare 3,282a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  escorcheor 9,519a TL: escorchëor 3,966 DEAF:  escorchier (escorcheor)  DMF:  écorcheur  TLF:  écorcheur  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
eschorchur;  escorcher,  escorchour,  escorchur;  escorgeour,  escochur, 
pl. echorchrus  

s.

1occupationskinner, flayer, one who skins animals for preparing meat or pelt: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quaunt demoré Out a mesun jesk’au matyn Un escho[r]chur y mena Martyn (=to kill and skin an injured ox)  8637
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  [...] des escorgeours (var. (N: c.1310) escorchers; (C: s.xiv1/3) escorcheurs) ou toundours des berbiz  i 84
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  Preter hec etiam venatorum numerum, generaliter quadripartitum, considerare hillarius iocundabar, vestigatores, indagatores, salatores gloss: (O) escochurs (var. (C: s.xiiiex) escorchours; (D: s.xiii/xiv) eschorchurs; (L: s.xiiiex) echorchrus), pressores  i 173.79 and ii 39.79
escorce#1  escorcher#1  escorcheure 
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