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pipee (c.1290)
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The form pepie is a cross reference to the following entry:

pipee (c.1290)

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pipé;  pepie  
  FEW:  *pippare 8,562a Gdf:  pipee 6,170b GdfC:  pipee 10,342a TL: pipee 7,964 DEAF:  piper (pipe)  DMF:  pipée  TLF:  pipée 2  OED: ∅ MED:  pipe n.3  DMLBS: ∅

The main sense in Continental French, 'Chasse dans laquelle on attire les oiseaux vers des branches enduites de glu, par l'imitation de leur cri ou celui de la chouette, prise d'oiseaux aux pipeaux', does not seem to be relevant here. However, etymologically the word is the same, in this case referring to the chirping sound of a flock of birds (cf. piper2).

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orn.zool.flock (of twittering birds): 
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  De chescune assemblee diversement Vous covent parler proprement: [...] Bevé de herouns, pipee (M.E. a flok) des oyseus (M.E. smale briddes), Haraz de poleyns, une foule de vylens  BIBB ROTH (T) 193
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Un pipé de oysealx (M.E. A pipe of briddus)  Nominale 830
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Beveye  (ms. Deveye) dez heronez et pipé dé oseaux (M.E. a pipe of bryddys)  Fem2 2.10

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See also:

pipard  pipe1  piper1  piper2 
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