filandre (c.1275)

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filandre (c.1275)

[ FEW: 3,533b filum /535b filum; Gdf: 3,791b filandre; GdfC: 9,619a filandre; TL: 3,1845 filandre; DEAF: F462 filandre; DMF:  filandre; TLF:  filandre; OED:  filander n.1; MED:  filanders n.pl.; DMLBS: 942a filandra ]
filaundre,  fylaundre  

The sense 'starling' is only attested in the Bibbsworth tradition. For a useful discussion as well as a further possible AN attestation of the sense 'cudweed', see Patrizia Lendinara, ‘On the Trail of Bibbsworth’, Current Issues in Medieval England, ed. Letizia Vezzosi (Berlin 2021), pp. 59-85, p. 67.

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1 insectszool. gossamer, possibly web of a spider
( c.1275 )  filaundre: gossumer  36
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Kar meuz vodroie petite poiné De gengevere bien trié Ki ne ferroie cent De filaundre tut pleins  125
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Une teile de filaundre (M.E. A web of gossomer) sur un perere  624
2 falc.orn. threadworm, parasitic worm (as a disease in falcons)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Pur le mal ke l’om apele aguilles e filaundres  26.8
3 orn.zool. starling
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  En mareis demert la herle; Uncore i ad ausi filaundre (M.E. stare) E le oysel ki ad noun chalaundre  719
( MS: s.xiv1 )  chalandra: un chalaundre, a wodelarke / philandra: filandre, a stare  15
( MS: s.xivin )  Esperver, tele et chalaundre Arounde, esturnel et filandre  809
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Unquore avez le fylaundre (M.E. star) , Et le oysel par noun chalandre  55.3
( MS: s.xvm )  un merle, un herle, un fylaundre, un claundre  94
4 bot. cudweed
( MS: s.xiv2 )  filago: filandre, chaunette, horewort  184.vii
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