parastre (s.xii2/4)

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parastre (s.xii2/4)

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  FEW:  patraster 8,19b Gdf: GdfC:  parastre 10,272c TL: parastre 7,343 DEAF:  parrastre  DMF:  parâtre  TLF:  parâtre  OED: MED: DMLBS:  patraster 2147a
 

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1kinship stepfather, non-biological father, man married to one's mother (who is not one's father)
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  'Qui a Marsilie me portast mun message?' Ço dist Rollant: 'Ço ert Guenes, mis parastre'  277
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  En Engletere est alé sun parastre tuer, Ke la mort sun pere voit il venger  (D) 978
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  de Cnut me fist parastre E de mer[e] se fist marastre  766
( 1260; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  si pere ou parastre ou nul de ses auncestres [...]  149
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parastre