faleise (c.1136-65)

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faleise (c.1136-65)

  FEW:  *falisa 15/ii,104a Gdf:  faloise 1 3,713b GdfC:  falise 9,596a TL: falise 3,1615 DEAF:  falise F79 DMF:  falaise  TLF:  falaise  OED: MED: DMLBS:  faleisia 898c
falayse;  faleys,  faleyse;  faloise,  faloyse;  phaleise  

a.

1cliff-like, precipitous (misused by translator to mean "marshy")
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  et il (=oxen) estoient pasteuz es lieux phaleises (Latin: et pascebantur in locis palustribus) (M.E. mersshes)  285

s.

1geog.cliff
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ki trop s'afie en sa richeise Charrat en parfunde faleise  7028
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Vit la faleise e la muntaigne  10.148
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Aval la faleise le geta  1016
( 1324 )  Et qe le dist Thomas dust aver fait un chemyn sour une faleyse pres de le armayl (l. arivayl) de la meer, a recevre aliens et autres gentz lesquels nostre seigneur le roy tynt ces enemys  ii 415
2geog.cliff (misused by translator to mean "marsh")
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  el pasture de la phaleise(Latin: in pastu paludis) (M.E. mersshe)  286
3 name (used as a surname)
( 1217 )  Willelinus de la Faleise  Fallas
( 1256 )  Ellis de la Falayse  Fallas
( 1316 )  Augustine de la Faleys  Fallas
aphaleiser  faleiser 
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