genest (s.xii2)

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genest (s.xii2)

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

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1bot.broom
( MS: s.xii2 )  Pur icel mal pernét turmentine e genest e de la tansesie salvage  64
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  Plançun de jenest a escoveillon revert  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  (E) 8808
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Freine, genest (M.E. brom) e pruner  678
( MS: s.xiii2 )  mirtus: gallice genet  ii 172
( MS: s.xiii2 ) Hec mirica, -ce: geneste  171.26
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Ardene, genette (M.E. brome) et coyner  670
( MS: s.xv )  Pernez bure de may e lez floures de genethe, e triblez bien ensemble  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  iv 233.775 and 233.776
Plante genest
1 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  (H) 106
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  Henry, le eisne fiz Gefrey Plantagenest e Malt le emperice  188
genestei 
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