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espesse1 (s.xii1/3)
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espesse1 (s.xii1/3)

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espeis,  espeise,  espeisse,  espés  (espasse)  
  FEW:  *spissia 12,197a Gdf:  espois 1 3,543a / espoisse 3,543a GdfC: ∅ TL: espoisse 2 3,1234 DEAF:  espés (espesse)  / espoisse  DMF:  épaisse  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1thickness, width: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Jacinctus [ço] est une pere E si est de bloie manere. Pur espeisse n’est obscuree  Lapid 244.1265
( 1378 )  [...] lez murs des ditz tours sys pedz en espesse  Build salz 457
♦ density: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  tut soit grant la melodie (=of the spheres), Ne parvent pas a nostre oie; E ço est ultre le eir amunt, Ki espeise nostre oir rumpt  Pet Phil 1934
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ceo (=retention) aveint [...] de l’espeisse de sanc  Med Treatise 153.187
2 crowdedness: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  L'un a ferir l'autre desturbe La grant espesse e la grant turbe  Brut WACE 12562
3treesgeog.bot. thicket: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Ben sai u nus l’avum (=the hind) leissee, A une espesse de buissuns  S Gile1 1681
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Par bois, par espés e par pleine  Dial Greg SATF 7435
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  En un forest qui grant esteit, En une espesse qu’il saveit  Gui War 6848
♦treesgeog.bot.thick, dense part (of wood): 
( c.1200; MS: c.1300 )  En l’espesce del bois se mist  Desiré2 202
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  lessa ces chevalers en l’espesse de la foreste  Fouke ANTS 27.36
4breadth: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  pas n’i parut Tant descovert del bort sovrein (=of a waterlogged boat) Com tient l’espeis de vostre mein  Dial Greg SATF 13318

See also:

spesse1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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