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fresche1 (s.xiii)
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fresche1 (s.xiii)

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freche,  frege;  freiche,  freische;  friche,  frige,  frische,  frisshe,  fryche  
  FEW:  versch 17,424b Gdf:  fresche 4,140c GdfC:  friche 9,664c TL: friche 3,2261 DEAF:  friche  DMF:  friche  TLF:  friche  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a.

agriculturaluncultivated, fallow: 
( c.1260; MS: c.1307 )  Le fermer lest la terre giser frische  Casus Plac 41
( 1317 )  le tenaunt soffreit touz jours lez terres giser freichez  YBB Ed II xxii 32
( 1346 )  coment les seigneuries, terres et tenements [...] gisent friges saunz gairs de profist prendre  Affairs of Ireland 186
( 1372 )  monstre sa commune q'ils sont grandement empoverez par le savagine qe destroient lours blees et pastures issint qe plusours lessent lours terres giser freschez  Rot Parl1 ii 313
( 1392-93 )  les dites terres pour la greindre partie gisent frisshes pour defaute de boune garde  King’s Council Ireland 59

s.

agriculturalfallow, uncultivated land: 
( MS: s.xiii )  veracta: lé friches  TLL ii 95.162
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  squalidi: (D) cotefeys, freges (var. (L: xiiiex) cotyfyez)  TLL ii 38.78
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