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genest (s.xii2)

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genest (s.xii2)

geneite,  geneste,  genet,  geneth,  genethe,  genette;  janest,  janet;  jenest,  jeneste,  jenet  (gaunai,  gei  TLL i 158 genece  TLL i 150 genestre  TLL i 66 gneste  TLL i 245 jaunei,  jonet  Fem2 52.5 ),
pl. jenettes,  jenettz  (genestis  TLL i 228)  
  FEW:  genista 4,100b Gdf:  geneste 1 4,257b GdfC:  genest 9,693a TL: genest 4,246 / geneste 4,247 DEAF:  geneste G482 / geneste (genest) G483 DMF:  genêt  / geneste 1  TLF:  genêt  OED:  genista n.  MED:  geneste n.  DMLBS:  genesta 1064a

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bot.broom
( MS: s.xii2 )  Pur icel mal pernét turmentine e genest e de la tansesie salvage  Pop Med 64
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  Plançun de jenest a escoveillon revert  Prov vil 10.222
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Munt Gelboé, ja ren cresse en tei Fors sul genivre e malveise gaunai (var. (B: s.xiii3/4) jaunei) Ne la rusee n'estanche vostre sei  Anc Test (E) 8808
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Freine, genest (M.E. brom) e pruner  BIBB ROTH (G) 678
( MS: s.xiii2 )  mirtus: gallice genet  TLL ii 172
( MS: s.xiii2 ) Hec mirica, -ce: geneste  Gloss BN Latin 171.26
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Ardene, genette (M.E. brome) et coyner  Nominale 670
( MS: s.xv )  Pernez bure de may e lez floures de genethe, e triblez bien ensemble  Five Med MSS 125.E98
decor.depiction of broom (possibly as the emblem of the Plantagenets)
( 1423 )  Item, .j. lite del drap d'or de baudekyn, noier et vert, ovec jenettes [...] Item, .v. tapitz de tapicerie des jenettz, chescun contenant .viij. verges en longure et .iiij. verges de large, en tout .xxxiij. verges quarrez  Rot Parl1 iv 233.775 and 233.776
Plante genest
name nickname for Geoffrey of Anjou, in 1460 used as a surname (by 'Richard Plantaginet') and from the seventeenth century applied to kings from Henry II to Richard III
( s.xiii2/3; MS: 1274-75 )  Maut l’emperice […] fu puis donee a Galfre Plantegenest cunte de angeo e puis vint en Engleterre  Reis Britt foltys (H) 106
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  Henry, le eisne fiz Gefrey Plantagenest e Malt le emperice  Reis Engl1 188

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genestei 
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