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more1 (c.1136-37)

more1 (c.1136-37)

moer,  mour, 
pl. mooris  
  FEW:  mor 16,564b Gdf:  more 2 5,406a GdfC: TL: more 2 6,263 DEAF:  mor 1 (more)  DMF:  more  TLF: OED:  moor n.1  MED:  mor n.1  DMLBS:  mora 2 1835c
ls(loanword: M.E. (?))
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s.

geog.marsh, moor
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Ço est un gue vers Windesoueres A unes estand en unes more  GAIMAR1 2960
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Par vals, par mores e par monz Fist faire chauciees e ponz  Brut WACE 2609
( 1260; MS: c.1300 )  en la mour ou nous vus faymes la veue  Brev Plac 38
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  tote manere de comodité issaunt de foreste, de boys, de mores, de brueres  BRITT ii 69
( 1305 )  ceo n'est pas more, eynz est maireys  YBB 32-33 Ed I 485
( 1321 )  Et auxi il y a une more q'ad a noun North moor  Glastonbury Chart 522

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See also:

morous 
This is an AND2 Phase 3 (I/Y-M) entry. © 2008-2012 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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