sorel1 (1130)
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sorel1 (1130)

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[gdw]

[FEW: 17,18b *saur; Gdf: 7,481b sorel 1; GdfC: ∅; TL: 9,891 sorel; DEAF:  sor 1 (sorel); DMF:  sorel; TLF: ∅; OED:  sorrel a. and n.2; MED:  sorel a.; DMLBS: 3138b sorellus 2]
sorell;  sourel; 
pl. sorrus  

Used without any context the word in TLL can be interpreted both as an adjective and a noun.

a.

1colour zool. horsessorrel, chestnut, reddish brown or a horse of that colour: 
( MS: s.xiii1 ) badios: bays / aurea: sorrus  ii 62 (W)
( 1396 ) un chival grys, un chival sorell, un chival grisell, un chival noir  537
2 name (used as a surname): 
( 1130 )  William Sorell  Sorrell
( 1175 )  Thomas Sorel  Sorrell

s.

1zool. mammalsstaggard, stag in its fourth year: 
( 1374 ) Item un garrant est fait a le parker de Hegham Ferers pur delivrer a Symkyn Symeon quatre deyms, soures ou sourels [...] pur l'estore d'un son parkes  ii 244
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