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margarite (s.xii3/4)
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margarite (s.xii3/4)

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margerete,  marguerite  
  FEW:  margarita 6/i,323b Gdf:  marguerite 5,174a GdfC:  marguerite 10,124b TL: marguerite 5,1162 DEAF:  marguerite  DMF:  marguerite  TLF:  marguerite  OED:  margarite n.1  / marguerite n.  MED:  margarit(e n.  DMLBS:  margarita 1721c

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1lapid.pearl: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Il gardent la [...] les champs honorez Ou les bones peres sunt e li lion coronez E bones margarites  Rom Chev ANTS 5511
( MS: s.xiii1 )  margarita: (J) margarite  Gloss Nequam1 255.170
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivm )  Margarite, coqille et corale, Emeraude  Blancheflour 4
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  margarite; Ceo est une pere preciouse, Blanche, e petite, e vertuouse  boz Three Saints 29.6
♦lapid.gem: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  [L]i clerc dient que crisolite Est preciose margarite  Lapid 166.290
2bot.daisy: 
( 1433-34; MS: c.1449 )  deux potz d’argent doré a ung esmaal sur le couvercle d’une chapel d’encolies (= columbine) et de marguerites  Bedford Inventories B173
margarite de ewe
?: 
( MS: s.xiv )  pernez ewe-rose e jus de morele e jus de jubarbe un poy, e margerete de ewe e vin egre bon quantité  Five Med MSS 63.W53
doner margarites as porcs
prov.to cast one’s pearls before the swine: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  Ne donez pas la seinte chose as chiens, ne les margarites as pors  Eluc 47.201

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margerie 
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