1to unfold, open out:
(
1184;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Ore le
(=the silken cloth in Thomas’s mother’s dream) espliez; Tut cest purpris [...] Pot l’em covrir
(B) 55
2to display:
(
1395-96
)
en acrochant a lui roial poiar, fist
(=Robert de Vere) esplaier le baner du roi en sa compaignie
iii 236
(
a.1399;
MS: a.1399
)
les comunes de Kent [...] esplayerount deux baners de seint George et lx penouns
139.3
3to deploy, make use of:
(
1305
)
prient al roy [...] qe yl vousisent assigner akun prodomme e leal qe porroyt ordeyner e parfere un autel mur de autre part de la ryver e de le murage
(=tax levied for building or repairing town walls) de meme la vile qe yl unt eu e levé ces set auns e qe est en nul leu ezplayé
i 477
1to fare:
(
1280-1307;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
a lur encontrer espleirent malement, Car pris sont tuit [...]
326.1108
1unfolded, spread open (?):
(
1397
)
un lit vert [...] ové un blu pale de chamelet embroudez ovesque un pot d’or ové .i. lilie esplaiez ové pluseurs flours d’argent de Cipreun lit vert [...] ové un blu pale de chamelet embroudez ovesque un pot d’or ové .i. lilie esplaiez ové pluseurs flours d’argent de Cipre
290
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esplaier (1184)