plesser1 (c.1136-65)
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plesser1 (c.1136-65)

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[ FEW: 9,54a *plaxus; Gdf: 6,1938a plaissier; GdfC: ∅; TL: 7,1060 plaissier 3; DEAF:  plais (plaissier 2); DMF:  plaisser; TLF: ∅; OED:  plash v. / pleach v.; MED:  plechen v.; DMLBS: 2319c plessare ]
pleissier, 
p.p. pleit  

v.a.

1to plash, provide a barrier of interwoven, pleached branches: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiiex )  Les pas firent partut plesser Pur Les Engleis desturber  1576

v.refl.

1fig.to bend, submit: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Se sunt del tut suzmis a laie poesté; Quel part que li venz turt, se plessent od l'or  4810

a.

mains pleites
1hands clasped, with fingers interwoven: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Haie chose sunt a Dé Tuit orgeillos e surquidé; Se mains pleites alquns esteit, Innocent pur ço ne serreit (Latin: si manu ad manum fuerit, non erit innocens)  9223
plesseiz 
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