1bot.reed, rush, tall-stemmed waterside plant of the Phragmites or Arundo genus:
(
s.xiiim?;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Junche on donques la maison des foilles froides come de mirte, de sauz, de roseax et de foilles de vingne et de glaiox
A-N Med ii 28.18
(
s.xiii3/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Les roseaus i
(=in India) sunt si granz ke entre chescun nou poet home fere un auge ke poet porter treis homes sur euue, sicum un batel
Liv Regions 28
(
MS: s.xv1
)
Pur checun playe curable pur fere entret sanative et attrative: Pernez rosyl e sere virgine, franc ensens
Pop Med 29
2coll.bot.geog.reed-bed, waterside area covered with rushes:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
)
Encrepe les bestes del rosel, congregatiun des tors es vaches des poples
Oxf Ps ANTS 81.67.33
3bot.reed-stalk:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv2
)
me bailla un rosel demaneis Ke resembla verge e me dist: ‘Dresce tei e mesurez le temple Deu de cist’
Apoc giffard 1877
♦
bot.joustingweaponsreed-stalk used in jousts as a non-offensive weapon:
(
1150-70;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
Enaprés
(=after the wedding-meal) [sei] esbanier A quintaines [e] as cembels, As gavelocs e as rosels, A palastres, as eschermies, A gieus de plusurs aaties Cum a itel feste affirent
Trist thomas2 432
(
1150-70;
MS: 1225-1300
)
puis si porterent cembeals, E [si] lancerent od roseals, Od gavelos e od espiez
Trist thomas2 2073
rosel1 (s.xii1)