fauchun (s.xiiiin)
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fauchun (s.xiiiin)

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  FEW:  *falcare 3,378b Gdf:  fauchon 3,728b GdfC: ∅ TL: fauchon 3,1645 DEAF:  fauchier 1 *F164 DMF:  fauchon  TLF:  faux 2 (fauchon)  OED:  falchion n.  MED:  fauchoun n.  DMLBS:  falcio 897b
fauchon,  fauchoun  

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1weaponsmil.kind of sword (with a curved blade): 
( MS: s.xiiiin )  hic sparus dicitur genus gladii, gallice fauchon  13
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Sa espeie deit estre oresun; Porter ne deit autre fauchun  6694
( MS: s.xiii2 )  spatam: (C) fauchoun  ii 76
( 1310-20 )  (Abraham to his son Isaac:) 'Joe porte la buche, e vous le fauchoun'  11v
( s.xv )  gladiorum […] diversa genera videbamus: spathas (gloss: fauchons), semispathas  sub semispatha (3019a)
faucher  fauchant  fauchard 
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