recoverir1 (1160-74)
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recoverir1 (1160-74)

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[gdw]

[ FEW: 2/ii,1143a cooperir; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 10,506c recouvrir; TL: 8,493 recovrir 2; DEAF:  covrir (recovrir); DMF:  recouvrir 1; TLF:  recouvrir; OED:  re-cover v.2; MED:  recoveren v.1; DMLBS: 2685b recooperire ]
recoverer,  recovrir,  recuvrir  

v.a.

1to cover up again: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Firent fosses parfunt chavees, desus estreites, dedenz lees; [...] De verge e de herbe qui il cuillirent Les fosses tutes recuvrirent  i 226.1740
♦build.to re-roof: 
( 1383 )  Piers Clete, plummer, as empris par certein covenant [...] pur recoverer certeines noz chambres, mantellets et batelmentes deinz nostre chastel de Hertford ové certeins fothers de plomme  ii 256.795

v.refl.

1to cover oneself up again: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Sovent la noit s'est descovert Pur la chalor, pus se recovre Pur le freit  2769
♦fig.to conceal one’s thoughts: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  La descovre ben sa raison [...]; E d’altre part ben se recovre, Ne dit pas l’achaison de l’ovre  6251
coverir 
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