servour (s.xiii2)
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servour (s.xiii2)

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[gdw]

[ FEW: 11,531a servare; Gdf: 7,403a servoir; GdfC: ∅; TL: 9,562 *servëoir /9,562 servëor 1; DEAF:  server (serveoir); DMF:  servoir; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 3051a servarium /3054c servorium ]
cervoir,  cervoire;  servur,  serwour  

s.

1 geog. fish-pond, lake used for keeping fish: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  euwe de servour (var. (T: s.xivin) serwour;  (O: s.xv1) cervoir) primes espuchez (M.E. laden hout)  517
( MS: s.xiii2 )  piscena: servur  i 25
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  […] ne poent les femmes rien chalenger […] en cervoires (var. (F: s.xiv3/3) servurs) ne en vivers ne en haies ne en estangs  ii 251
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  L’autre va e lui moustre la lune resplendisant e[n] un servour  64
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