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pie² (c.1170)

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piet, pye;
pl. pyez

FEW: pica 8,420b Gdf: pie2 6,44c GdfC: pie 10,334b TL: pie 7,877 DEAF: pie 1 DMF: pie 1 TLF: pie 1 OED: pie n.1 MED: pi(e n.1 DMLBS: pica 1 2273a

For pie² used to reinforce a negation, see Möhren, Le renforcement affectif de la negation, p. 188. As the expression ne aver le vaillant d’une pie used in Horn 2764 is also found in Continental French, it seems less plausible to interpret it as an instance of pie¹.

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orn.zool.magpie, bird with black and white plumage and a long pointed tail, Pica pica:

( c.1185 ) Le bon cheval neir cume pie Proth ANTS 8998

( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 ) Aver de sen pire est ke pie Ki autre luer ne vult rendre Pet Phil 162

( s.xiii^m; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Le vent se fiert es voilles qe plus tost les gwie Qe nus falcons ne voille quant il chace la pie Dest Rome¹ 318

( MS: c.1250 ) De avibus [...] Hec pica: pie TLL i 419

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) crere sorpie (l. sor pie) ou sour songes ou sor nule sorcerie Ancren² 40.16

cote de la pie

costume colourblack and white tunic:

( 1374 ) les gentz de l’ercevesqe de Dyvelyn, chanceller, tresorer et garsouns del estable plus qe cent [...] furont vestutz en cotes de la pye blank et noir Windsor 193

frere pie

monastic colour eccl.Friar of the Pie, friar of an order wearing black and white habits:

( c.1450 ) Fratrum quos ‘Freres Pyes’ veteres appellabant OED pie n.1

ne aver le vaillant d’une pie

to be worthless:

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Qu’ele n’out un d’icés [le] vaillant [d’]une pie (var. (H: s.xiii^m) fie) Horn 2764

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