♦
fig.trifle, frivolity:
(
s.xivin;
MS: c.1330
)
La
(=in church) parlent dames e dammeseles […] De noveu geu, de vei ceneles
68.21
♦
fig, straw:
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
L'enfant [...] tutes les meschines envirun Ne presout mie une cenele
2081
(
c.1235;
MS: c.1235
)
Jesu ne aurai pur ki ne doins une cenele
1268
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