1to unfold, open out:
(
1184;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Ore le
(=a silk cloth) espliez; Tut cest purpris [...] Pot l’em covrir
(B) 55
♦
to spread out (?):
(
MS: s.xv
)
Quaunt ces choses sunt fundés en un paele outre le feu, versetz en une nette. Epple ces choses quaunt yl est tut freyd
144.E293
2to unfurl, display (a banner, flag, etc.):
(
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
1herald.(of a heraldic fleur-de-lis) splayed, with petals and leaves spread wide 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
290
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