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suaire (s.xii2/4)
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The form suaere is a cross reference to the following entry:

suaire (s.xii2/4)

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çuiere;  souaire;  suaere,  suare,  suari,  suarie,  sudaire,  sudarie,  sueire,  suer,  suere  (suir)  
  FEW:  sudarium 12,395b Gdf:  suaire 7,579b GdfC:  suaire 10,717a TL: suaire 9,1044 DEAF:  suaire  DMF:  suaire 1  TLF:  suaire  OED:  sudary n.  MED:  sudari(e n.  DMLBS:  sudarium 3277b

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1 textile shroud, sheet for covering up or wrapping a dead body: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiiiin )  Que desuz un suare (var. (H: s.xiiim) suarie ) Estoit couvert un cors  thaon Body and Soul 6
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  E morz e seveliz [...] Vilment en volupez de mult poure suaire  GUISCH 343
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Cel seint cors ont bien lavé, En novel souaire le unt mise  S Audree1 2262
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  En sueires les (= martyrs) unt e mis e encusu  S Aub 1401
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  ses sudaires mys estoient sur les corps des languissantz  Actes (B) 220b
♦ Bibl.textile Holy Shroud, burial shroud of Jesus Christ: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xiiiex )  Dul sudarie Jhesu que il out en sun chef  Pel Charlemagne 170
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Et puis le digne suarie dunt Jhesu en fu volupee  Dest Rome1 1281
2 equit. textile saddle-cloth: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Moult ocient chevauls et devant et derriere, Li estraier enparent, qui panel, qui suiere  Rom de Rou wace i 143.3942
( MS: c.1250 )  sudaria: çuiere (var. (Douce 88: s.xiii) suarie )  TLL i 417
( MS: s.xiii )  sudario: suere, house  TLL ii 67.63
( MS: s.xiii )  suarium: suir, huse  TLL ii 114.155

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